Intel's Ice Lake Processor for Data Centers
Supports up to 40 cores and up to 64 lanes of PCIe Gen 4
Enhanced performance with pre-installed AI, security, and encryption features On the 7th, Intel held an online press conference and unveiled the '3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors' codenamed 'Ice Lake' that accelerates 5G, AI, and cloud performance in data centers.
▲ Na Seung-joo, managing director of Intel Korea, 3rd generation Intel Xeon
Holding a scalable processor [Photo = Intel]
The new Ice Lake '3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8380' processor delivers an average 46% performance improvement in common data center workloads compared to the 'Cascade Lake' '2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280' processor.
The third-generation processor family is built on Intel’s 10nm process technology and offers up to 40 cores per processor, up to 6TB of system memory per socket, up to eight channels of DDR4-3200 memory, and up to 64 lanes of PCIe Gen 4.
In addition, AI performance ‘ It has improved security performance by incorporating 'Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost)' technology, 'Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)' technology, and 'Intel® Crypto Acceleration' technology for encryption performance.
Combining the above technologies with the portfolio of over 500 ‘Intel® Select Solutions’ and ‘Intel® IoT Market Ready Solutions’ enables immediate implementation of data center-related applications.
Intel emphasized that the new Xeon delivers 74% faster AI performance than the previous generation, and up to 1.5 times higher performance than the 'AMD EPYC 7763' and up to 1.3 times higher performance than the 'NVIDIA A100 GPU' in about 20 commonly used AI workloads.
The 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable platform includes the Intel® Optane® Persistent Memory 200 Series, the Intel® Optane® SSD P5800X, the Intel SSD D5-P5316 NAND SSD, the Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters, and the latest Intel® AgileX™ FPGAs.
today More than 800 cloud service providers worldwide are leveraging Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and major providers plan to offer cloud services using 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors by 2021.
Meanwhile, software developers can easily program heterogeneous processor-based applications in data centers without fragmentation by utilizing compilers, libraries, and debugging tools in the 'Intel® oneAPI Toolkits'.
