According to Intel’s original schedule, this year they will launch the Cooper Lake and Ice Lake processors in the server market, the former is 14 nm and the latter 10 nm, the appropriate platform will also be switched to Whitley, but now that it has been confirmed that the single and dual version of Cooper Lake will be eliminated.
In fact, a few months ago, the Ice Lake SP processor has already appeared in the database of Geekbench, but at that time it was only a 6-core product, and now there is a database of 24-core Ice-Lake SP, this 10nm processor will use the Sunny Cove core, and now compared to the Skylake core the IPC is greatly improved, in addition, the caching mechanism has also been improved, the first-level cache retains the Sunny Cove 32KB instruction + 48KB data, the second-level cache and now the Ice Lake U expansion compared to 2.5 times, from 512KB to 1.25 MB, while the shared third-level cache has 36 MB.
This 24-core new processor has a base frequency of 2.2 GHz and a maximum acceleration of 2.9 GHz, which is not very high, but that’s it for a super-core server processor, and it should still be in the technical sample phase, and the frequency will probably be higher when it is officially released.
From the previously disclosed schematics, the Ice Lake SP is a single-slot 38-core system, supports dual-core systems, supports 8 lanes of DDR4 3200 memory, and offers 64 PCI-E 4.0 lanes, and is scheduled for release in the third quarter of this year.