Xeon Platinum

Intel Launches 3rd Gen Ice Lake Xeon Scalable

April 6, 2021May 23, 2021 David Schor 10nm, AVX-512, Ice Lake, Intel, Sunny Cove, x86, Xeon Gold, Xeon Platinum, Xeon Scalable, Xeon Silver

Intel launches its 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable, formerly Ice Lake. Fabricated on the company’s 10nm process, those server chips go up to 40 Sunny Cove cores and offer a 20% IPC improvement over the prior generation.

Server Processors

Intel Refreshes 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable, Slashes Prices

February 27, 2020May 25, 2021 David Schor 14 nm, Cascade Lake, Cascade Lake R, Cascade Lake SP, Intel, Xeon Bronze, Xeon Gold, Xeon Platinum, Xeon Scalable, Xeon Silver

Intel refreshes its second-generation Xeon Scalable lineup mid-cycle with new mainstream dual-socket CPUs, improving the performance-per-dollar by as much as 2x over original SKUs.

Architectures Embedded Processors Server Processors

Intel Rolls Out Next-Gen Data Center Portfolio; 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Optane DC, Hewitt Lake, and Cascade Lake With Up to 56 Cores

April 2, 2019May 25, 2021 David Schor 14 nm, 800 Series Ethernet, Cascade Lake, Columbiaville, data center, eon Scalable, Ethernet switch, Hewitt Lake, Optane DC, Skylake-SP, Speed Select Technology, X, x86, Xeon Bronze, Xeon D, Xeon Gold, Xeon Platinum, Xeon Silver

Intel is launching their next-generation data center infrastructure product portfolio including Cascade Lake with up to 56 cores, new lower-power Hewitt Lake processors, Optane DC SSD and persistent memory DIMMs, as well as 100 Gb Ethernet.

Supercomputers

Eni fires up its supercomputer, breaks into the TOP500’s top ten

January 19, 2018May 25, 2021 David Schor Eni, Green Data Center, Italy, Supercomputers, Tesla K80, TOP500, Xeon Platinum, Xeon Scalable

Eni breaks into the TOP500 with the only private supercomputer to get into the top 10. Utilizing Intel’s latest Skylake-SP processors and packing close to 20 petaFLOPS of computing power, Eni is trying to revolutionize the way exploration & production research is conducted.