AMD return to the high-end market segment with new CPU and GPU architectures with Zen and Vega respectively. Now the red company is preparing a new platform called Snowy Owl, a SoC (System on Chip) that will be part of the EPYC 3000 processors.
Snowy Owl, The new SoC processor, will be part of the EPYC 3000 series
AMD presents the SoC Snowy Owl that will compete against the Xeon-D
AMD is focusing on all market sectors, including conventional desktops (Ryzen 3/5/7), big-end desktops (Threadripper), mobile and servers (Epic). Based on this last segment, AMD is preparing a new Snowy Owl platform for embedded applications (SoC).
Snowy Owl is the code name of Epic 3251, a chip in the Epic 3000 series that will be the first Zen-based SoC of AMD. This new SoC will be integrated with the SP4r2 BGA socket. And because of its appearance, it will be the most robust SoC solution that exists. That is not too surprising since Snowy Owl is a reduced version of Naples (Eypc 7601 and so on), which in turn is 32 cores.
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Also, there will be two categories of Snowy Owl, a single-chip module (SCM) that can compare up to 8 cores and 16 threads. And a multichip module (MCM) that can scale up to a peak of 16 cores and 32 threads. These will compete with Intel’s Xeon-D family in the x86 solution space.
The advantages over Intel Xeon-D
Also, that offers some clear advantages over Xeon-D. While the maximum number of cores and threads is the same between the two (up to 16 cores and 32 threads), Snowy Owl supports four-channel memory, Xeon-D only supports two-channel memories. The integrated AMD solution also provides more cache (32MB of L3 cache versus 24MB), and twice as many PCI Express lanes to 64 instead of 32.
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This new AMD platform will be ready in 2018.