Wednesday, April 1st 2020
Intel Planning 14nm "Ozark Lake" 16-core Processor for Spring 2021
TechPowerUp has learned that Intel is planning to bring 16 cores onto the mainstream desktop platform by Spring 2021 by implementing a similar chip-design philosophy as AMD: MCMs. The new "Ozark Lake" processor will pack up to 16 cores and 32 threads by decoupling the "core" and "uncore" components of a typical Intel mainstream processor.
Intel will leverage the additional fiberglass substrate floor-space yielded from the new LGA1700 package to create a multi-chip module that has two [kinds of] dies, the "core complex" and the "uncore complex." The core complex is a 14 nm die purely composed of CPU cores and an EMIB interconnect. There will be as many as 16 "Skylake" cores in a conventional ringbus layout, and conventional cache hierarchy (256 KB L2$ and up to 2 MB/core L3$). The lack of uncore components and exclusive clock and voltage domains will allow the CPU cores to attain Thermal Velocity Boost Pro speeds of up to 6.00 GHz, if not more.
The core complex connects to another, smaller die on the package called the "uncore complex," using EMIB. This die packs all of the chip's I/O. Among its key components include a dual-channel DDR4 memory controller, a PCI-Express gen 4.0 root complex with 28 lanes (16 toward PEG, 8 toward the DMI 4.0 chipset bus, and 4 toward an "accelerated M.2 slot" (working title), or perhaps even an Optane persistent memory slot). Also featured will be an Intel Xe-architecture based iGPU with roughly 1 TFLOP/s raw compute power. The modularity of the MCM will allow Intel to build lower-core count SKUs by simply placing smaller 10-core, 8-core, or 6-core dies next to the uncore complex.
Intel has, in the past, built an MCM with the exact same floor-plan and division of labor, "Clarkdale," circa 2010. Our well placed sources in the motherboard industry pin a soft-launch date on April 1, 2021, unless delayed by COVID-19.
Update 07:07 UTC: We reached out to Intel for comments and received an unexpected response: "We do not comment on unreleased products, but we're committed to saving the world by keeping college kids away from irresponsible spring break parties during a pandemic."
Intel will leverage the additional fiberglass substrate floor-space yielded from the new LGA1700 package to create a multi-chip module that has two [kinds of] dies, the "core complex" and the "uncore complex." The core complex is a 14 nm die purely composed of CPU cores and an EMIB interconnect. There will be as many as 16 "Skylake" cores in a conventional ringbus layout, and conventional cache hierarchy (256 KB L2$ and up to 2 MB/core L3$). The lack of uncore components and exclusive clock and voltage domains will allow the CPU cores to attain Thermal Velocity Boost Pro speeds of up to 6.00 GHz, if not more.
Intel has, in the past, built an MCM with the exact same floor-plan and division of labor, "Clarkdale," circa 2010. Our well placed sources in the motherboard industry pin a soft-launch date on April 1, 2021, unless delayed by COVID-19.
Update 07:07 UTC: We reached out to Intel for comments and received an unexpected response: "We do not comment on unreleased products, but we're committed to saving the world by keeping college kids away from irresponsible spring break parties during a pandemic."
60 Comments on Intel Planning 14nm "Ozark Lake" 16-core Processor for Spring 2021
According to the original AnandTech we should be blasting through 20Ghz by now...
www.anandtech.com/show/680/6
And even Intel said we should've been at 10Ghz by 2011.
www.geek.com/chips/intel-predicts-10ghz-chips-by-2011-564808/There is NO CISC x86 any more... it's all emulated and broken down into efficient micro-ops over the last 10 years or so. I don't know all the details, but I'd guess ARM64 and AMD/Intel x64 are more simliar than different these days when talking about the design of the code execution engines. At least ARM64 big cores, but they still can't compete with AMD/Intel, yet.
Where TF is that moar cores meme with more GHz........
Intel, your data is everyone's data tm.
Intel, cause Dell still sucks our di**.
Intel, shit, we are here again?
6Ghz, is cool, but what's the IPC with all their patches in place hardening their flaccid security? Maybe they need a little blue pill for their little blue Chip?
The original version I had saved from way back from the time between Zambezi and Vishera, but Ryzen 3000 really re-popularized this one. Through all the rabid vitriol from both camps, it's still pretty funny to see how the tables have turned.
And quite honestly, now that I think back, AMD never really went down the "moar cores" road back then unless you somehow count Thuban. CMT was a dud, and they tried to make the most of it by marketing it as being more than it really was. Today's Intel, on the other hand......
Intel has the killer tech in 2.5D market. Either they save it for nonmainstream applications, or it is the same paper launch with their esram.
I saw this article as very misleading, particularly to people that don't watch Netflix with some story irrelevant to Technology.
But then again, when I think of the Ozarks I hear banjos.
So in that sense, the joke isn't any more difficult than if it were called 'Loch Ness' Lake or anything. Its also not intentionally misleading, its the whole point... maybe this is a filter for those who are in the know with current tech developments and those who are not. If anything its more thát than anything else being misleading I'd say... The fun bit is 'oh GOD yet another Intel Lake'.
It'd be really bad if a tech forum would cater to the lowest common denominator for making jokes, I think. Its also not a bad thing to miss a joke. It just means it didn't land, that is all...
I mean, this really does give it away... no Ozark knowledge required.
"Intel has, in the past, built an MCM with the exact same floor-plan and division of labor, "Clarkdale," circa 2010. Our well placed sources in the motherboard industry pin a soft-launch date on April 1, 2021, unless delayed by COVID-19."