Intel cooper lake of 14nm in 2019 and 10nm in 2020, its new roadmap for servers

Intel revealed its new server roadmap at an event in Santa Clara, featuring its new generations until 2020.

Intel Cannon Lake for 2018, Cooper Lake in 2019 and 10nm of Ice Lake in 2020

Later this year, Intel will launch the Cascade Lake server platform, with various security enhancements and important features for business customers such as instructions for deep learning. As expected, these processors will continue to use 14nm.

In 2019, a new name has appeared: Cooper Lake. This would be the last generation before the final step at 10nm, planned for 2020 with Ice Lake due to the different problems they are having with the manufacturing process. It is a 'refresh' of Cascade Lake that would remain on the same platform.

According to the Anandtech portal, for Cooper Lake a new platform would be released under the LGA4189 socket on which the 10nm Ice Lake will also be based.

With Specter and Meltdown, the focus on security has become key on these platforms and the most important advance that this generation will bring to servers is the possibility of performing security patches at the hardware level instead of software, as was the case in the current generations and that caused those 3-10% losses in performance.

In summary, until we see the 10nm we will not have great improvements in Intel Xeon processors, beyond certain optimizations and security features that are important for business customers, even if they seem distant to us.

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