Intel Kills Off "14nm" Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Processors
takyon writes:
Intel's Cooper Lake Plans: The Chip That Wasn't Meant to Exist, Fades Away
Following an exclusive report from SemiAccurate, and confirmed by Intel through ServeTheHome, the news on the wire is that Intel is set to can wide-spread general availability to its Cooper Lake line of 14nm Xeon Scalable processors. The company is set to only make the hardware available for priority scale-out customers who have already designed quad-socket and eight-socket platforms around the hardware. This is a sizeable blow to Intel's enterprise plans, putting the weight of Intel's future x86 enterprise CPU business solely on the shoulders of its 10nm Ice Lake Xeon future, which has already seen significant multi-quarter delays from its initial release schedule.
[...] Today's news is that Intel is pulling the plug on Cooper Lake. That's despite being a product that was ES sampling as early as 18 months ago, potentially QS sampling 12 months ago, and should be out already. If you wanted a single socket or a dual socket Cooper Lake server, then bad luck - Intel is set to only sample Cooper Lake to key customers (Facebook) who are driving quad-socket and eight-socket systems.
As reported at ServeTheHome, Intel gave the following guideance. We've split it into several segments to discuss what is being said.
- Given the continued success of our recent expansion of 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable products, in addition to customer demand for our upcoming 10nm Ice Lake processors, we have decided to narrow the delivery of our Cooper Lake products that best meets our market demand.
- Intel's upcoming Cooper Lake processors will be supported on the Cedar Island platform, which supports standard and custom configurations that scale up to 8 sockets.
- Customers, including some of the largest AI innovators today, are uniquely interested in Cooper Lake's enhanced DL Boost technology including the industry's first inclusion of bfloat16 instruction processing support. We expect strong demand for the technology and processing capability with certain customer segments and AI usages in the marketplace that support deep learning for training and inference use cases.
- We continue to expect delivery of Cooper Lake starting in the first half of 2020.
The CPUs were created to give Facebook something with support for bfloat16 instructions.
Previously: Intel to Launch 48-Core "14nm" Cooper Lake and 38-Core "10nm" Ice Lake Xeons in 2020
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