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Intel to Refresh its LGA2066 HEDT Platform – Possible Sneak Peak at Computex 2019

Yes … we are in for a surprise, albeit a very expensive one!

Intel is rumored to refresh its high-end desktop (HEDT) platforms this Summer with new products based on the “Cascade Lake” microarchitecture. Intel now has two HEDT platforms, LGA2066 and LGA3647. The new “Cascade Lake-X” silicon will target the LGA2066 platform, and could see the light of the day by June, on the sidelines of Computex 2019. A higher core-count model with 6-channel memory, will be launched for the LGA3647 socket as early as April. So if you’ve very recently fronted $3,000 on a Xeon W-3175X, here’s a bucket of remorse. Both chips will be built on existing 14 nm process, and will bring innovations such as Optane Persistent Memory support, Intel Deep Learning Boost (DLBOOST) extensions with VNNI instruction-set, and hardware mitigation against more variants of “Meltdown” and “Spectre.” 

Elsewhere in the industry, and sticking with Intel, we’ve known since November 2018 of the existence of “Comet Lake,” which is a 10-core silicon for the LGA1151 platform, and which is yet another “Skylake” derivative built on existing 14 nm process. This chip is real, and will be Intel’s last line of defense against AMD’s first 7 nm “Zen 2” socket AM4 processors, with core-counts of 12-16.

Source: ChipHell via TPU

 

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