Intel plans to bring the 16 cores to the desktop via “Ozark Lake”, a family of chips that would arrive in 2021. The details at the insides.
Although we don’t know much about Rocket Lake-S, there is information about other Intel plans. This time, it’s Ozark Lake, a family of chips that would arrive in the spring of 2021. It will bring many interesting new features, such as the MCM implementation, a design very similar to that of AMD. This generation will have 16 cores and 32 threads and will go through a slightly different process. Here are the details.
At present LGA1700 socket will accommodate this generation of processors. It is expected that Intel will use the extra space in this socket to create a multi-chip module with two types of arrays: the “Core Complex” and the “UnCore Complex”. The first is a 14nm die, which consists of CPU cores and an EMIB connection. There will be up to 16 “Skylake” cores together with a standard cache configuration (256 KB L2 and 2MB L3).
This design allows the chip cores to reach speeds of up to 6.00 GHz using Thermal Velocity Boost Pro-Turbo. We are even told that it can even increase this frequency a little bit. But we shouldn’t rush it, because we already know how this “turbo” from Intel works: If temperatures allow it, it will go up to this frequency.
On the other hand, the core complex is connected to the non-core complex through the EMIB link; this contains all the I/O of the chip. It will also have a dual-channel DDR4 memory controller, PCI-E 4.0 support with 28 lanes (16 x PEG, 8 x bus DMI 4.0 chipsets and 4 x slot m.2 “accelerated”.
As it couldn’t be otherwise, the iGPU with Intel Xe architecture, which will offer almost 1 TFLOP/s performance, could not be missing. The MCM design will allow Intel to produce SKUs with fewer cores and see configurations with 10, 8 or 6 cores.
Release date:
According to TechPowerUp sources, Intel Ozark Lake could arrive on April 1, 2021 if no other event like COVID-19 occurs. In addition, Intel was contacted and the company reacted strongly.
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