Intel To Host ‘Intel Unleashed’ Webcast Featuring CEO, Pat Gelsinger, on 23rd March – 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon Launch & More

 

Intel's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has announced that his company will be hosting its 'Intel Unleashed' webcast on 23rd March. Pat states that exciting things will happen during the webcast & we may already know a thing or two that should be making an appearance during the live event.

Intel CEO Announces 'Intel Unleashed' Live Webcast For 23rd March, Exciting Things To Happen Including 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPU Launch

As tweeted out by Intel's CEO, the company will host its 'Intel Unleashed' event next week. The teaser image shows the picture of a silicon wafer but on a closer inspection & with a higher-quality image posted at Intel's newsroom, we can confirm that the webcast will primarily focus on the 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPUs. Following is the tweet and the official PR from Intel:

Join CEO Pat Gelsinger for a business update and webcast address on the new era of innovation and technology leadership.

When: 2-3 p.m. PDT, Tuesday, March 23

Where: Watch live on the Intel Newsroom at http://newsroom.intel.com.

The silicon wafer is composed of 28 core Ice Lake-SP Xeon dies. We know that Intel would offer up to 40 core processors within its 3rd Gen Xeon family this time around to tackle AMD. The Xeon lineup based on the Ice Lake-SP design will be using the 10nm+ process node which shouldn't be mistaken with the 10nm SuperFin process which only lands on Sapphire Rapids Xeons later this year. The Ice Lake-SP processors will be featuring the Sunny Cove core architecture which was introduced back in 2019 and coming to servers in 2021. It should be noted that Intel has a more modern Willow Cove architecture powering its consumer & commercial processors right now so we aren't getting that on the server-side.

Intel's Xeon Ice Lake-SP lineup is split between Platinum, Gold, and Silver SKUs. The top SKU is said to be the Xeon Platinum 8380 which would feature 40 cores, a base clock of 2.30 GHz, and a 270W TDP. Compared to AMD's flagship, we are looking at lower cores and a lower base clock however, Intel's architecture and process nodes are tuned for higher clock speeds so that might mark a small win for the blue team.

The company is also placing bets on its AVX-512 instruction set and has shown CPU benchmarks where it handily beats AMD's existing Rome CPUs but only when running applications that fully leverage AVX-512 instructions. Standard applications would not see the same benefit on Intel CPUs.

The lineup starts with 8 cores and goes all the way up to 40 cores. The lineup is quite confusing if compared to the AMD EPYC parts so you can see the table below to get a sense of what Intel will be offering in its 3rd Gen Xeon Ice Lake-SP stack:

Intel Xeon Ice Lake-SP Server CPU Lineup (Preliminary):

CPU Name	Cores / Threads	Base Clock	Boost Clock	L3 Cache	L2 Cache	TDP
Xeon Platinum 8380	40 / 80	2.30 GHz	TBA	60 MB	50.00 MB	270W
Xeon Platinum 8368	38 / 76	2.40 GHz	TBA	57 MB	47.50 MB	270W
Xeon Platinum 8360Y	36 / 72	2.40 GHz	TBA	54 MB	45.00 MB	250W
Xeon Platinum 8358	32 / 64	2.65 GHz	TBA	48 MB	40.00 MB	250W
Xeon Platinum 8358P	32 / 64	2.60 GHz	TBA	48 MB	40.00 MB	240W
Xeon Platinum 8352S	32 / 64	2.20 GHz	3.40 GHz	48 MB	40.00 MB	205W
Xeon Platinum 8352Y	32 / 64	2.20 GHz	3.40 GHz	48 MB	40.00 MB	205W
Xeon Platinum 8352V	36 / 72	2.10 GHz	TBA	54 MB	45.00 MB	195W
Xeon Platinum 8351N	36 / 72	2.40 GHz	TBA	54 MB	45.00 MB	225W
Xeon Gold 6354	18 / 36	3.10 GHz	TBA	27 MB	22.50 MB	205W
Xeon Gold 6348	28 / 56	2.80 GHz	TBA	42 MB	35.00 MB	235W
Xeon Gold 6346	16 / 32	3.10 GHz	TBA	24 MB	20.00 MB	205W
Xeon Gold 6342	24 / 48	2.70 GHz	TBA	36 MB	30.00 MB	220W
Xeon Gold 6338	32 / 64	2.00 GHz	TBA	48 MB	40.00 MB	205W
Xeon Gold 6336Y	24 / 48	2.40 GHz	TBA	36 MB	30.00 MB	185W
Xeon Gold 6334	8 / 16	3.50 GHz	TBA	12 MB	10.00 MB	165W
Xeon Gold 6330	28 / 56	2.00 GHz	TBA	42 MB	35.00 MB	205W
Xeon Gold 6326	16 / 32	2.80 GHz	TBA	24 MB	20.00 MB	185W
Xeon Gold 5320	26 / 52	2.20 GHz	TBA	39 MB	16.25 MB	185W
Xeon Gold 5318Y	24 / 48	2.00 GHz	TBA	36 MB	30.00 MB	165W
Xeon Gold 5317	12 / 24	2.80 GHz	TBA	12 MB	15.00 MB	150W
Xeon Gold 5315Y	8 / 16	3.00 GHz	TBA	12 MB	10.00 MB	150W
Xeon Silver 4316	20 / 40	2.30 GHz	TBA	30 MB	25.00 MB	150W
Xeon Silver 4314	16 / 32	2.30 GHz	TBA	24 MB	20.00 MB	135W
Xeon Silver 4310	12 / 24	2.10 GHz	TBA	12 MB	15.00 MB	135W
Xeon Silver 4309Y	8 / 16	2.60 GHz	TBA	12 MB	10.00 MB	105W

Other than the Xeon announcement, we can also expect Intel to provide us with better information regarding its next-generation Xeon roadmap, an update on external/internal fabs utilization, and a couple of teases on other announcements such as the Xe-HPG parts which have been confirmed for unveiling on 26th March.

Source: wccftech