Stefan Mileschin

At its Data-Centric Innovation Summit in Santa Clara today Intel demonstrated its official Xeon roadmap for 2018 – 2019. As expected, the company confirmed its upcoming Cascade Lake, Cooper Lake-SP and Ice Lake-SP platforms.

Later this year Intel will release its Cascade Lake server platform that will feature CPUs that bring support for hardware security mitigations against side-channel attacks through partitioning. In addition, the new Cascade Lake chips will also support AVX512_VNNI instructions for deep learining (originally expected to be a part of the Ice Lake-SP chips, but inserted into an existing design a generation earlier).

Moving on to the next gen. Intel's Cooper Lake-SP will be launched already in 2019, several quarters ahead of what was reported several weeks ago. Cooper Lake processors will still be made using a 14 nm process technology, but will support some functional improvements, including the BFLOAT16 feature. By contrast, the Ice Lake-SP platform is due in 2020, just as expected.

One thing to note about Intel’s Xeon launch schedules is that the Cascade Lake will ship in Q4 2018, several months from now. Normally, Intel does not want to create internal competition and release new server platforms too often. That said, expect the Cooper Lake-SP to launch in late 2019 and the Ice Lake-SP to hit the market in late 2020. To make it clear: Intel has not officially announced launch timeframes for its CPL and ICL Xeon products and the aforementioned periods should be considered as educated guesses.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13194...kesp-confirmed