Xeon Scalable

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 Circuit Design Floorplanning ISSCC 2018

ISSCC 2018: Intel’s Skylake-SP Mesh and Floorplan

March 9, 2018May 25, 2021 David Schor 14 nm, floorplan, Intel, ISSCC, ISSCC 2018, Skylake, Skylake-SP, x86, Xeon Scalable

At ISSCC 2018 Intel gave us some more interesting architectural details of their latest Skylake server microprocessors which brought a new mesh interconnect, a new cache hierarchy, and wider vector operations among a large array of other enhancements.

Embedded Processors Server Processors

Intel launches the Xeon D-2100 series of low-power edge processors

February 7, 2018May 25, 2021 David Schor 14 nm, edge computing, Intel, Skylake, Skylake-DE, x86, Xeon Scalable

Intel has launched the Xeon D-2100 series of microprocessors based on the Skylake server microarchitecture for networking, storage, IoT, and cloud edge servers.

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.

Server Processors

Intel to launch Skylake-D in Q1 2018, followed by Xeons with integrated FPGA

November 26, 2017May 25, 2021 David Schor FPGA, Intel, Skylake-DE, x86, Xeon D, Xeon Scalable

Intel confirms the launch of energy-efficient Xeon D processors based on Skylake for early 2018 which will be followed by Xeon with integrated FPGAs.