Intel Launches Coffee Lake Xeons and Details Cascade Lake

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Intel unveiled Cascade Lake, the successor to their current Skylake Xeons, on their roadmap some time ago, but actual specifications for the platform were unknown. Yesterday, they formally announced Cascade Lake, and went into a little more detail. Intel says the new processors "incorporates a performance optimized multi-chip package", and feature 12 channels of DDR4 and up to 48 cores in a single socket. Intel also made some performance comparisons between a dual-socket Cascade Lake System and a 2P AMD EPYC 7601 server, but as you probably know, in-house benchmarks from any company need to be taken with a grain of salt. More details on Cascade Lake are supposed to come at the Supercomputing 2018 conference, and Intel claims they will be available sometime in 2019. Meanwhile, Intel also launched the Coffee Lake-based Xeon E-2100 lineup, which is available today.

Intel SGX on the Intel Xeon E-2100 processor family delivers hardware-based security and manageability features to further secure customer data and applications. This feature is currently unique to the Intel Xeon E processor family and allows new entry-level servers featuring an Intel Xeon E-2100 processor to provide an additional layer of hardware-enhanced security measures when used with properly enabled cloud applications. The Xeon E-2100 processor is targeted at small- and medium-size businesses and cloud service providers.
 
Ahh yes, they bash the glue then go all in on it...funny guys over there!

Looking forward to the reviews, interesting they didnt go full 56 cores, but probably cant power the thing effectively @ 350w TDP and partly trying account for imperfections in those beast dies. Jamming two massive dies together at 14nm just doesnt seem like a good idea. Looks like AMD has forced this move and Intel is tripping over it own feet to try and maintain performance at the high end. Lets see what AMD has to offer in its presentation tmrw, again love the competition that has come back, but weve seen some smart moves and some knee jerks...this seems like it might be the latter. Still 2019 is shaping up to be a great year for tech enthusiasts!
 
Sikkyu said:
well well well, look how the turntables have turned.
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Not only that this is going to ship in a year I bet and will be limited at most. Looks to me like they are just trying to make sure their customers have some forward looking hope.
 
Finally people who understand that you need to inceacememory bandwidth instead of cramming more cores in.
 
psyclist said:
Ahh yes, they bash the glue then go all in on it...funny guys over there!

Looking forward to the reviews, interesting they didnt go full 56 cores, but probably cant power the thing effectively @ 350w TDP and partly trying account for imperfections in those beast dies. Jamming two massive dies together at 14nm just doesnt seem like a good idea. Looks like AMD has forced this move and Intel is tripping over it own feet to try and maintain performance at the high end. Lets see what AMD has to offer in its presentation tmrw, again love the competition that has come back, but weve seen some smart moves and some knee jerks...this seems like it might be the latter. Still 2019 is shaping up to be a great year for tech enthusiasts!
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I'm interested to see how low they have to push the base clocks on these.
 
There may be a slight error. We're not sure if 2019 is the time of release or the USD base price of the lowest end processor. Stay tuned!
 
I actually thought the E series was out already. Intel took forever on these. Let's see if their are any descent C246 motherboards for these things.
 
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