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Intel Announces Cascade Lake With Up To 56 Cores and Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs (tomshardware.com)

Posted by msmash on from the processor-war dept.

At its Data-Centric Innovation Day, Intel today announced its Cascade Lake line of Xeon Scalable data center processors. From a report: The second-generation lineup of Xeon Scalable processors comes in 53 flavors that span up to 56 cores and 12 memory channels per chip, but as a reminder that Intel company is briskly expanding beyond "just" processors, the company also announced the final arrival of its Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMMs along with a range of new data center SSDs, Ethernet controllers, 10nm Agilex FPGAs, and Xeon D processors. This broad spectrum of products leverages Intel's overwhelming presence in the data center, it currently occupies ~95% of the worlds server sockets, as a springboard to chew into other markets, including its new assault on the memory space with the Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMMs. The long-awaited DIMMs open a new market for Intel and have the potential to disrupt the entire memory hierarchy, but also serve as a potentially key component that can help the company fend off AMD's coming 7nm EPYC Rome processors.

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  1. Re:400w by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 5, Informative

    This new top-end CPU comes in at 400w and requires water cooling. Who the hell wants water cooling in the data center!? This just seems like a massive disaster waiting to happen. Also, they're no longer socketed, but instead soldered directly to the motherboard, just like SoCs.

    Mainframes used to use water cooling. See old IBMs.

    Power RF uses water cooling.

    Power machinery uses water cooling.

    Internal combustion engines use water cooling.

    Do it right and it's reliable.

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  2. Re:400w by ASCIIxTended · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or use mineral oil, like old Crays did. Mineral oil does not conduct electricity.

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  3. BGA for $10k CPU?! by pope1 · · Score: 1, Informative

    From here: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-cascade-lake-xeon-optane,6061.html

    "Instead of being socketed processors, the 9200-series processors come in a BGA (Ball Grid Array) package that is soldered directly to the host motherboard via a 5903-ball interface."

    Who is excited to attempt RMA'ing a $10k to $20k Motherboard?

    Intel has been on this train for a while now:

    https://phys.org/news/2012-11-intel-broadwell-cpu-swap-outs.html
    https://www.techpowerup.com/186846/intel-roadmap-outlines-lga-to-bga-transition

    Guess it's time to go AMD for all our server builds, or invest in a cheap Rework Station:

    http://bit.ly/rework_station

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