Apr 6, 2021 11:27 EDT
Today finally marks the official launch of Intel's 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPUs which will be the company's first server lineup to be made on the 10nm process node. The Ice Lake-SP lineup aims at the server segment and will be competing against AMD's EPYC Milan family which launched last month.
Intel 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPUs Officially Launched - 10nm Comes To Servers With Up To 40 Cores, 270W TDP, 64 PCIe Gen 4.0 Lanes & More
Starting off with the details, Intel's 3rd Gen Ice Lake-SP Xeon CPUs will be based on the 10nm+ process node and utilize the Sunny Cove core architecture. The Intel Sunny Cove x86 architecture has been around since 2019 and was first featured on Intel's 10th Gen Ice Lake processors for the notebook segment. Intel has since moved over to Tiger Lake which is based on the Willow Cove x86 architecture and makes use of the 10nm SuperFin process node.