Intel cooper lake reduces its range while betting on the 10 nm

Intel has confirmed (via scoop from ServeTheHome) that they will dramatically narrow the reach of Cooper Lake, a major server platform based on the 14nm process. The reason? The company wants to dedicate all its resources to the transition to 10nm.

Intel Cooper Lake narrows its range while betting on 10nm

Although this news will be received with mixed feelings regarding investors, it may be a step in the right direction, since the company needs to make the technological leap towards 10nm as soon as possible and then at 7nm nm.

What this essentially means is that Intel will only supply its Cooper Lake line of 14nm Xeon Scalables processors to large customers who typically implement 4S and 8S configurations (Facebook for example). Availability to the customer in general has been essentially terminated with this decision. This is something that is likely to make a big change in market dynamics when it comes to servers. Here's the catch, Cooper Lake as a 14nm platform was added as a broker before 10nm when it seemed that delays would increase more and more, and here's the good side.

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Intel is confident in delivering on its 10nm promise, to the point where they are removing the broker platform when it comes to overall availability.

Unfortunately, however, Cooper Lake set out to introduce bfloat 16 instructions into the AVX 512's vector units, something that is easily used by machine learning algorithms and could have provided significant acceleration to those applications. When it comes to finances, bfloat16's biggest client, Facebook, will receive Cooper Lake's promised delivery. The little ones, on the other hand, will have to wait for the 10nm pieces to arrive. We will keep you informed.