Intel announces the second generation of cpus xeon of up to 56 cores

Intel has officially announced its second-generation Xeon scalable CPU lineup, which promises more than 50 models, dozens of custom models specific to each workload, between eight and 56 cores per socket and support for Optane's persistent DC memory.

Intel Xeon Cascade Lake-AP will offer up to 56 cores

With this announcement, we will see the launch of Intel Cascade Lake-AP (Advanced Performance), which brings together two Cascade Lake processors to offer up to 56 cores in a single socket on two CPU arrays. Since the initial Cascade Lake-AP reveal, Intel has updated the 48-core processor to now offer 56 full cores that are possible within this configuration, and each socket has support for 12-channel DDR4 memory.

This decision by Intel is striking, considering that they called AMD's EPYC processors 'Glued-together' , now they are using two glued processors to reach 56 cores.

DC Optane DIMM support and AI acceleration

While the benefits of the Intel Cascade Lake architecture are numerous, the main changes are compatibility with DC Optane memory DIMMs and with new AI acceleration technologies.

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Thanks to its new Cascade Lake-AP, Intel wants to offer a high-performance platform to welcome EPYC, which will soon make the leap to 7nm and will have about 64 cores. Only time will tell how well both behave, and if Intel did enough not to continue losing ground in the server and data center segment.

Strangely, Intel has not mentioned the thread count of its 56-core processor. In a dual socket configuration, Intel can now offer systems with up to 112 cores and DDR4 memory in 24 DIMM slots.

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