Tuesday, May 5th 2020
Intel Xeon vPro and Core E "Comet Lake" Lineup Surfaces
Remember DFI? Those guys are into industrial PCs and embedded systems these days, and put out data sheets of upcoming products implementing the new Intel W480 chipset. A possible step-up from Intel Qx70 series chipset family, the W480 is positioned between the Q470 and Z490, and enables certain quasi-workstation features relevant to client desktops in very big organizations. The chipset enables vPro, and certain other features that helps with remote management.
The DFI specs, without taking model numbers, names several kinds of upcoming Xeon vPro and 10th generation Core E-SKUs. Among these are Xeon vPro processors in core-counts of 10, 8, and 6; and TDP levels of 80 W, and 35 W. It's not known if the 10th gen Xeon vPro succeed the workstation-segment Xeon E-series, which typically don't work on client-segment chipsets. We also see an assortment of Core i9, Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, Pentium and Celeron processors with the "E" brand extension, across a variety of TDP options. Unless we're horribly mistaken, the "E" brand extension could denote ECC memory support, at least in the case of the W480E and Q470E chipset variants.
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The DFI specs, without taking model numbers, names several kinds of upcoming Xeon vPro and 10th generation Core E-SKUs. Among these are Xeon vPro processors in core-counts of 10, 8, and 6; and TDP levels of 80 W, and 35 W. It's not known if the 10th gen Xeon vPro succeed the workstation-segment Xeon E-series, which typically don't work on client-segment chipsets. We also see an assortment of Core i9, Core i7, Core i5, Core i3, Pentium and Celeron processors with the "E" brand extension, across a variety of TDP options. Unless we're horribly mistaken, the "E" brand extension could denote ECC memory support, at least in the case of the W480E and Q470E chipset variants.
9 Comments on Intel Xeon vPro and Core E "Comet Lake" Lineup Surfaces
Intel can do better. Say hello to 56-core Xeon Platinum 9282 @2.6 GHz Max 3.8 GHz and 77 MB total cache.
ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/194146/intel-xeon-platinum-9282-processor-77m-cache-2-60-ghz.html
Tualatin
Conroe
Merom
Nehalem
Sandy Bridge
Now I can barely bring myself to read any news story with Intel and 'something lake' in the headline.
Nehalem and Sandy Bridge were nothing interesting. Core i7 920 was almost as fast Core 2 Quad Q9650.
Sandy Bridge fixed the awful HT that was present in Nehalem.
I mean, was and is there really market demand for yet another 14nm iteration, or is it just a shareholders dream?
Intel has never innovated, and has always given incremental performance improvements, just as today.
Intel had a design win with their Core design, made a leap the competition had trouble countering. Thén they stopped chasing design wins, and iterated like you say, leaning on node refinements and leadership almost exclusively. Its ironic that Intel actually stopped being serious about progress moments after AMD showed how a design failure can completely destroy your market share. One might think they'd have learned from the competition, too. Did they really think they could keep stalling core scaling like that?
And now, when its clear they can't keep iterating, they start throwing so much feces at the wall we can't even keep up. Its not really a sign of progress, but desperation.