Intel Architecture Day

[porina]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13699/intel-architecture-day-2018-core-future-hybrid-x86

 

Someone else can do the news post, but skimming through it now, we are getting a "new" CPU architecture in 2019. AMD may not have such an easy run after all... but we'll have to wait and see exactly what both sides bring to market.

 

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Sunny Cove, built on 10nm, will come to market in 2019 and offer increased single-threaded performance, new instructions, and ‘improved scalability’. Intel went into more detail about the Sunny Cove microarchitecture, which is in the next part of this article. To avoid doubt, Sunny Cove will have AVX-512. We believe that these cores, when paired with Gen11 graphics, will be called Ice Lake.

 

[Morgan MLGman]

Well, we didn't get a new architecture since Skylake so it's about damn time. (excluding Skylake-X due to transition from ring bus to mesh architecture you could arguably call it "new")

[porina]

Just now, Morgan MLGman said:

Well, we didn't get a new architecture since Skylake so it's about damn time. (excluding Skylake-X due to transition from ring bus to mesh architecture you could arguably call it "new")

Agreed, although it wasn't a bad architecture by any means it did feel we're due an update. I wouldn't call Skylake-X a new architecture from that point, as the cores were doing pretty much the same pretty much thing outside the addition of AVX-512. Even a 10nm shrink of Skylake wouldn't be bad... but I'll take anything extra I can get.

[Princess Luna]

Thank God we're getting 10nm after all... 10c/20t coffee lake refresh again would t have been as exciting at all.

[Fasauceome]

I bet that's the name of their mobile. If it's consumer, that's neat, but if they get an LGA 115x chip out on 10nm next year I'm legit surprised.

[Taf the Ghost]

8 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Thank God we're getting 10nm after all... 10c/20t coffee lake refresh again would t have been as exciting at all.

Don't be so sure. Sunny Cove is in Cooper Lake-SP. That's still a 14nm Server part.  Cannonlake "launched" in 2017, officially. So we're looking at the same baseline microarchitecture on 2 different nodes.

[Taf the Ghost]

X^e is going to be the GPU Brand Name. 

 

Let me be the first to make this terrible reference.

 

 

[Taf the Ghost]

The big stuff:

 

- Baseline Micro-architectures are now split from Process Node. Beyond Tick/Tock being gone, we're going to see the same architectures on different nodes in different products.

- 10nm is coming in 2019, but it looks a lot like it'll be only in Low Power.

- Those 10c Comet Lake rumors are likely real.

- Intel now has a functioning big.LITTLE design with x86 cores

- Intel now has full 2.5D and 3D packaging technology at the production level

- Activate Interposers as well

- GPUs are going to be a full stack from iGPU/Embedded all the way to Direct Compute cards. X^e is the branding and they're going right after Nvidia in that space.

- Intel's GPU division can make good products, but they haven't been able to launch anything new in almost 5 years.

 

Whole lot going on.