In the next six months will be released server platform Purley, which lodges not only the 14-nm generation of Skylake processors, but also their generation successors cannonlake . If the first offer up to 28 cores, then the second, the figure will be over 30 pieces.
In the reporting quarter Intel conference, representatives of the corporation confirmed that Purley platform components already supplied samples to key clients of the company. It will offer many innovations, among them the interface Omni-Path "silicon photonics". Furthermore, as explained Intel, the second generation Purley platforms offer support for memory-type 3D XPoint. It combines the properties of non-volatile solid-state memory with the speed of RAM.
In addition, Intel promises to integrate into future server platforms FPGA-solutions, because it believes programmable matrix one of the effective ways to speed up the computation.