Intel sapphire rapids will support pcie 5.0 and ddr5 in data center

Intel Sapphire Rapids processors will come with key features like number of cores and I / O. The "Sapphire Rapids" processor will introduce the biggest advances in I / O in nearly a decade, when they come out in 2021.

Intel Xeon 'Sapphire Rapids' processors will support PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 in data center

The “Sapphire Rapids-SP” processor is known to introduce data center DDR5 memory support, which is intended to double bandwidth and memory capacity throughout the DDR4 generation. The processor has an 8-channel DDR5 memory interface (512 bits wide). It also introduces important innovations in the I / O section with PCI-Express 5.0, which not only doubles the bandwidth over generation 4.0 to 32 Gbps per line, but also comes with a range of features relevant to data centers that Intel is launching in advance as part of CXL Interconnect.

The platform "Sapphire Rapids" has the code name "Eagle Stream", and will form the basis for the successor his successor who would come out the following year called "Granite Rapids".

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This processor could introduce improvements in performance, clock speeds, and instruction sets. "Sapphire Rapids" and "Granite Rapids" have been programmed to match the 7nm and 7nm + nodes, respectively.

By 2020, Intel plans to release "Cooper Lake" on its 2P and 4P / 8P platforms, "Whitley" and "Cedar Island, " respectively. Additionally, it will introduce CXL Interconnect technology, which overcomes many of PCIe's scalar limitations in the data center environment. CXL is expected to merge with the PCIe 5.0 specification in 2021. Intel will also release its first 2P-capable processor "Ice Lake-S" for the "Whitley" platform, which comes with 8 DDR4 channels and PCI-Express 4.0.

Intel seems to have everything tied up for the next few years in the field of servers, we will see if it meets the red tide of AMD and its EPYC processors.

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