At yesterday’s keynote at CES, Intel presented numerous innovations in the field of processors. Tiger Lake, Rocket Lake, Jasper Lake and Alder Lake – these are the code names of the processors used in the various categories.

But there is another announcement from Intel concerning the data center. The third-generation Xeon scaleable processors alias Ice Lake-SP, which were already expected in the fourth quarter and then apparently moved to 2021 to be mass-produced this quarter. This means that the first major customers should be supplied with the new processors in the coming weeks. General availability should be achieved in the second quarter.

“Today marks a significant milestone for Intel as we continue to accelerate the delivery of our 10 nm products and maintain an intense focus on delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products for our customers, “ said Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager of the data center group at Intel. “Our 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable platform represents a strategic part of our data center strategy and one that we’ve created alongside some of our biggest customers to enable the data center of tomorrow.”

Intel is not giving the official starting shot, but is talking about a formal announcement that will follow in the coming months.

Use the Xeon processors based on Ice Lake-SP CPU cores based on the Sunny Cove architecture. It is not yet known how many cores Intel has packed into a package. Thanks to the new CPU cores, an IPC plus of about 14% expected. As an innovation of the platform, Ice Lake-SP will support PCI-Express 4.0 and thus eliminate a disadvantage of the current Xeon generation. In addition, Intel is increasing the number of memory channels from six to eight.

The EPYC processors based on the Milan design, i.e. the Zen 3 architecture, are expected to start in the coming weeks and months . So there is another exchange of blows in the server area.

To come back to the code names at the beginning of the message: Yesterday Intel presented new quad-core processors for mobile use (Tiger Lake -H 21) announced the more powerful models with up to eight cores for later in the year at (Tiger Lake-H 45), transferred the first Pentium and Celeron processors in the 01 -nm production (Jasper Lake) and gave further details about the next (Rocket Lake-S) and the next but one (Alder Lake) desktop platform.