It covers 2021-2022
Commenting on Intel ‘s latest quarterly report , the company’s CEO confirmed that the next generation Xeon (Ice Lake) processors will begin production in the first quarter of 2021. The source supplemented this information by publishing the development plan for the Xeon family for 2021-2022 that came to his disposal.
Leak reveals plans for Intel Xeon processor family
In particular, judging by the plan, Intel is not going to update the Walker Pass series, which is known under the trade name Intel Xeon Advanced. At least until the end of 2022, there will be no new processors in this series.
In Q2 2021 Intel will release a new Xeon Scalable (Tennesse Pass) series built on Ice Lake-X architecture and targeting supercomputers, and two quarters later, its successor, Denali Pass (Eagle Stream) series, will appear, whose processors will be based on the architecture. Sapphire Rapids. They will support DDR5 and PCIe Gen 5.
While the Tennessee Pass series processors are designed for high-performance servers, the Coyote Pass (Ice Lake) series is aimed at mainstream servers with one or two processor sockets. These servers will support up to 32 DIMMs, but the memory type is not specified in the plan. Concurrently with the release of the Denali Pass, the Fox Creek Pass processors will replace the Coyote Pass processors.
