Saturday, January 16th 2016
Intel Readies a 5.1 GHz Xeon Chip Based on the "Broadwell" Architecture
Intel's first 5-gigahertz CPU will bear an unlikely brand - Xeon. The company's upcoming Xeon E5-2602 V4 quad-core chip based on the 14 nm "Broadwell-EP" silicon, is rumored to ship with a staggering 5.10 GHz clock speed out of the box. Getting there won't be easy for this socket LGA2011v3 chip. Despite being a quad-core chip, with just four out of ten cores on the "Broadwell-EP" silicon bring physically enabled, the chip's TDP is rated at 165W. Other features include 10 MB of L3 cache, and a quad-channel DDR4 memory interface.
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Word is, there will be a 16C/32T model coming soon...
www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/d/x10sdv-f.cfm
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182964
Gigabyte just released a lineup of boards with the D-1541 and D-1521 that haven't found their way to the market yet.
It's also BGA, so you're not buying the CPU from anyone, only on an embedded system.
All in all, it sounds just like my 3820.
Its interesting that 22 cores running at 2.20GHz with 55mb Cache consumes less energy than 12 cores running at 3.00GHz and just 30mb Cache:
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/91287/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-v4-Family#@Server
Intel's "10nm" is already pretty delayed. Cannonlake may be the dream crusher and a wake up call to silicon reality.