Intel cascade lake xeon will arrive in 2018 with support for dimm optane

The Intel Xeon “Cascade Lake” family of scalable processors will arrive in 2018 with support for Optane DIMMs

Intel has yet to launch its Skylake-SP Xeon processor family, but the company is already making preparations for the next generation of CPUs. While it's sometimes typical for Intel to present details about its future products long before its official launch, this time it appears that the company spoke about the Xeon family of scalable processors due to AMD's EPYC platform, which is based on the architecture of Zeppelin cores and has processors oriented to data centers.

While Intel has not disclosed any public benchmarks for Skylake-SP Xeon processors, AMD released new performance data for EPYC CPUs versus Broadwell-SP (and not Skylake-SP). But AMD also unveiled a long-term roadmap for its plans for the server industry.

Therefore, after the arrival of EPYC (formerly known as Naples), AMD plans to launch 7nm Zen 2-core Rome processors in 2018 and 7nm + Zen 3.0-core Milan processors in 2019. This puts Intel in a A very complicated position, although the company plans to counterattack AMD Rome chips with the Cascade Lakes, slated to replace the current scalable family of Xeon processors in 2018.

The Intel Cascade Lake family of processors, also known as Cascade Lake-SP, will be an updated version based on Skylake-SP processors. The new processors will maintain the same architecture but will be based on a 14nm + node that will improve efficiency, clock frequency and number of cores.

However, the best thing about Cascade Lake will be the support for 3D XPoint memories based on Optane DIMMs, which will allow you to have up to 3TB of memory spread across 4 sockets and up to 6TB spread across 8 sockets.

Intel expects to launch Cascade Lake processors with Optane DIMMs in 2018, so more details are likely to follow until next year.

Intel cascade lake will support up to 3.84tb of RAM per socket

Intel is working on the final touches of its new wave of Xeon Scalable processors based on the new Cascade Lake architecture. These new Intel Cascade Lake will come with a six-channel DDR4 memory controller, which will allow up to 3.84 TB of memory to be mounted per socket.