. Intel’s problems 10 with the nanometer process have also hit hard on the server side. Ice Lake-SP server chips should already be on the market and production should be hot, but the latest rumors suggest that the actual mass production will not start until next year.

Intel has released the data center side of the director Trish Damkrogerin holding a new Keynote slides, where it introduces a new generation of Xeon processors Scalable performance. 10 Nanometer-based Ice Lake processors are becoming available in a number of different configurations and Intel used in its example 32 – core variant. The processors have an 8-channel DDR4 3200 memory controller and support for the PCI Express 4.0 standard.

According to Intel tests 64 – the core of the upcoming Xeon Platinum processor would cover AMD 64 – core Epyc 7742 processor in LAMMPS (Large-scale Atomic / Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator) test and NAMD STMV (Not Another Molecular Dynamics, Satellite Tobacco) test Mosaic Virus) 20 and in the Monte Carlo simulation 30 by 1%.

The slide pack also included a slide that perhaps made a somewhat questionable claim, with Intel calling the Xeon Scalables “mainstream CPUs”. Regardless of the questionable claim, the interesting part of the slide was information about the upcoming Sapphire Rapids architecture. The successor to Ice Lake will be made with the 10 nanometer Enhanced SuperFin process. It will support the new generation of DLBoost technologies, i.e. Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions. According to Slia, sample models of Sapphire Rapids processors would have already been widely supplied to customers, which could be considered somewhat special given the Ice Lake schedule.

Source: Intel