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Intel Announces Xeon Scalable Processor Family (hothardware.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the family-comes-first dept.

MojoKid writes: Intel unveiled information regarding a new Xeon processor family today, some of which will be based on the company's Skylake-SP architecture. Intel will have four levels of Xeon processors that scale with respect to feature support and core counts. Intel is calling it the Xeon Scalable Family with Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum processors. Today, Xeon model names follow a fairly easy-to-understand format. Take for example the Xeon E5-4640 v4. "E5" in this case means that it is in the middle of Intel's current stack in terms of features and capabilities, where the "4" signifies use in a 4-socket system. Finally, the "v4" represents the architecture. With this change, a model like the one above would become Intel Xeon Gold 4640, as an example. Regardless, the chips will include support for AVX-512 instructions, QuickAssist and Volume Management Device (VMD) technologies that will take advantage of NVMe solid-state drives. The platform will also support complementary processing engines and IO technologies like Intel FPGAs, Xeon Phi accelerators and Silicon Photonics connectivity. Intel notes the processors will be arriving to market this summer.

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  1. Re: Scalable hardware??? by threephaseboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, Intel would never do something like charge people to unlock features present in the CPU they bought

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  2. Re:Why 4-digits by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Informative

    When the last one is always zero.

    Because it was designed in America, where three houses on a cul-de-sac will each have a four digit house number. Americans love superfluous digits.

    But I shouldn't ridicule Americans too much, since some other countries have numbering schemes that are even sillier. For instance, in Japan, houses on a block are not numbered in sequence, but in the order in which they were built.

  3. Not an "unveiling" -- an accidental leak by djembe2k · · Score: 4, Informative

    Intel didn't "unveil" anything -- they accidentally posted a "product change notification" that listed model numbers for upcoming Skylake Xeon processors, then quickly took it down. What we've learned is that the model numbering system will change, maybe in a way that keeps a similar organization but renames things, and maybe in a way that means substantive changes. We can't tell. In other words, this is semantics. If there's more to be gleaned from the leak, I haven't heard it here.

    1. Re:Not an "unveiling" -- an accidental leak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      This summer they are planning on releasing Coffee Lake, which will be 8xxx in desktops (ex: i7-8700K, or whatever). 8 is getting close to 0, so they are probably going to have to rebrand that. The Xeons had a bit more life in them- a coffee lake Xeon would only be "v6", and it isn't out yet. Their enthusiast chips, should they keep that artificial market, would be out at a similar time to the Xeons (some time in the future- the Skylake enthusiasts aren't even out yet), would be something like "i7-9950X" or whatever.

      Basically, they'll probably be rebranding all their shit soon. I don't think we even know how to read the new Xeons- is a Gold 2667 comparable to an E5-2667 v4? Basically, how do you tell the difference between a Gold 2667 Skylake, and a Gold 2667 Coffee Lake, without the version number?

  4. Re:Chip names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    The autism is strong in this one.