Intel plans to launch xeon 'cascade lake' before year-end

Intel is working tirelessly to launch its 48-core 'Cascade Lake' Xeon processor before the end of the year, thus anticipating AMD's move with its 7nm EPYC processors.

Intel wants to launch limited Cascade Lake processors to outshine 7nm EPYC

This can be known thanks to a device leaked by the data center hardware provider QCT. The slide suggests a release roadmap for the XCC (Extreme Core Count) version of "Cascade Lake, " which includes 48 CPU cores across two arrays in an MCM. This launch is part of QCT's "Advance Shipment Program, " meaning "select" business customers can source the hardware in pre-approved quantities. In other words, this is a limited release, but probably enough to outshine AMD's 7nm EPYC “Rome” 64-core processor release, or at least, that's the intention.

Only at the end of the first quarter until the second quarter of 2019, the Xeon “Cascade Lake” family will be launched on the market in a substantial way, including variants with fewer cores. This is aligned to anticipate or match AMD's 7nm EPYC family rollout until 2019. "Cascade Lake" is probably the latest Intel microarchitecture to be built under the 14nm ++ node, and consists of 2-chip multichip modules with 48 cores and a 12-channel memory interface (6 channels per matrix).

Since Intel struggled with its 10nm node, AMD has taken the technological edge in the server industry. The EPYC processors arriving in 2019 will have more cores and are manufactured at 7nm, while Cascade Lake has fewer cores and 14nm node.

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