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Intel announced a 56-core server CPU (presumably purely to try to keep up with AMD), which is just two 14nm 28-core dies “glued” together like Zen 1. But AMD cl
by TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
Intel announced a 56-core server CPU (presumably purely to try to keep up with AMD), which is just two 14nm 28-core dies “glued” together like Zen 1. But AMD clearly has an lead on getting this to market and optimising it into their current chiplets.
- theevilsharpie 7y agoIntel has had a 56-core Xeon for a while, but there's been no essentially no interest from OEMs. I don't think you can even get it outside of custom-built HPC machines.
- wtallis 7y agoThe dual-die 56-core CPU isn't socketed; it's a massive BGA-soldered package.
- spamizbad 7y agoThe craziest thing about that 56-core CPU is its 400 watt TDP. Meanwhile 64-core Zen2 EPYCs top out at 225 watts.
- c2h5oh 7y agoNot the rumored 50k price tag for the -M variant that doesn't have max memory artificially limited?
- spamizbad 7y agoI had no idea. That's... uh... why? I guess part of this nonsense is the consolidation of cloud vendors. Intel is selling CPUs the way IBM sold mainframes in the 1960s.
- wmf 7y agoIf an uncrippled 28-core is $17K then putting two of those in one package is going to be over $35K.
- Dylan16807 7y agoUnlocking the memory capacity is a flat fee regardless of how many cores, so I think a better comparison price for the overcosting is $20k locked / $28k unlocked.
- cududa 7y agoBack in 2007 at Microsoft I saw an 80-core Intel prototype. Didn’t really do much of anything, and there was only 1 of them, but it’s interesting seeing some of these old research projects come to fruition