Intel sunnycove offers improvements of up to 75% in 7

Intel is getting closer to its “2018 Architecture Day” event on December 12, aimed at assuring investors and channel partners that its short and medium term CPU architecture work plan looks competitive., even demonstrating the first prototypes of future architectures like Sunnycove.

Sunnycove may be the new Intel architecture

Intel has been widely criticized for resting on its laurels, but the company wants to demonstrate that they have not slowed down, and that they have been working on a new architecture for some time to take the performance of their processors to a new level. One of Intel's previous exhibits revealed a code-named processor demo platform "Sunnycove. " It is unclear if this is a derivative of an upcoming CPU architecture (such as "Ice Lake") or if it is the first fundamentally new CPU core design since "Nehalem".

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The numbers issued by Intel suggest up to 75% more performance in 7-zip, without giving more details on whether they mean compression, decompression or encryption. Speaking of the latter, this chip has some important encryption features, including support for new sets of encryption instructions including SHA-NI (secure hashing algorithm instructions) and vector-AES. Much of the chip is designed to speed up encryption, and your applications could be business-centric.

We will have to wait to find out if Intel is finally preparing a completely new architecture, or is it the current one with some improvements focused on optimizing encryption tasks. The Core architecture has been with us since 2008, so it is time to take over with a completely new design, more with the threat of AMD Zen 2 processors of up to 16 cores in AM4.

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