AMD's latest reorganization leaves no hope for return to the niche of higher performance processors. Officially announced that a new economic foundation of the company - it is energy efficient platform in all its manifestations, from game consoles to computers and servers. Also Intel publicly admitted transfer of mass production of 14 nm solutions to the first quarter of 2014.
Recent financial reports Intel clearly indicate that the most profitable for the company was the server segment.
Emphasis on server platforms promises appearance in the timeline generation models Haswell-EP, and Broadwell-EP. These models are expected to come in one year with desktop processors generation Broadwell, what will happen in 2015. Specifically, the server versions - Broadwell-EP - expected closer to the fall. Likely to fall session in 2015 IDF.
So, the 14-nm processors Broadwell-EP can receive up to 18 cores, allowing them to handle up to 36 computing threads simultaneously. Workstation, obviously, will provide a model with 8-10 core, but the clock frequency of such decisions can start from point 4 GHz without transition to turbo. Cache in the third level for the maximum number of core will reach 45 MB. Four-channel memory controller will be enabled DDR4-2400, but it will be installed in each channel in two memory strip. Dual-processor platform, so can accommodate 16 memory modules totaling over 2TB. Estimated Intel, DDR4 memory will be faster DDR3 memory by 15-25%, but the main thing is that it works at a voltage of 1.2 V, which is a significant savings on electricity bills.
In addition to increased processor performance, and 18-core processor Broadwell-EP will be able to work in a double-precision calculations at speeds up to 1 teraflops (that much more than CPU), Intel will pay a lot of attention to the development platforms such functions as security computing and virtualization . While developers of server platforms on the ARM architecture are trying to achieve at least part of the success of the former decisions on MIPS and Alpha, Intel company brings virtualization and remote management of resources to perfection. Intel company goes from private to general, that leaves plenty of room to maneuver, while the artificial union of AMD and ARM - Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) - trying to create a single virtual environment, where it will be comfortably hedgehog, Swifts and uzhu. It's almost like Noah's Ark - epically hard, but only happens in fairy tales. Related Products :
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