News Preliminary Features of Sapphire Rapids Uncovered: 56 Cores, 64GB HBM2E, MCM Design

[Admin]

Intel's Sapphire Rapids confirmed to feature up to 56 cores split over four dies and HBM2E cache.

Preliminary Features of Sapphire Rapids Uncovered: 56 Cores, 64GB HBM2E, MCM Design : Read more

 

[JayNor]

"However, considering the fact that it's unclear which company will produce 3D XPoint for Intel starting in 2022"

Intel is evidently developing gen3, Crow Pass, on their own, associated with Sapphire Rapids. They also have shown a gen4 Optane, Donahue Pass, on some leaked roadmaps, associated with the Granite Rapids server chips.

 

[JayNor]

the DSA can apparently accommodate Optane memory, according to the on-line documents.

Its cache flush operation is curious.

https://software.intel.com/content/...g-accelerator-architecture-specification.html