Intel launched the third-generation Xeon processor in April this year, code-named Ice Lake-SP. The product uses a 10nm process and has up to 40 Sunny Cove cores. According to Videocardz, Intel confirmed that the next generation of Xeon processors will be upgraded to the core of the Golden Cove architecture.
One of the contributors to Linux Kernel is Andi Kleen from Intel. He recently submitted a change to change the label of the Sapphire Rapids-X processor from “Willow Cove” to “Golden Cove”, confirming this The name of the core architecture of a generation of processors.
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The Willow Cove architecture could not meet the requirements in the next-generation processor roadmap, so a new core architecture was adopted. The fourth-generation Xeon processors will support DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0, and CXL 1.1 buses.
Although Intel has not announced yet, the Linux code shows that the Alder Lake desktop processor and Sapphire Rapids server CPU will use a similar Golden Cove architecture, both using the 10nm enhanced SuperFin process.
The Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon processor will have up to 56 cores, 80 PCIe 5.0 channels, and will use the LGA4677-X interface. The new product is expected to be released as early as the end of 2021, and the engineering version has already been exposed.
