At a gathering in U.C. Berkeley, VLSI guru Jim Keller shared the first details about Intel’s next-generation CPU architecture. Unfortunately, though, we don’t know whether Jim Keller is reffering to Willow Cove or Golden Cove. Willow Cove will succeed the Sunny Lake, whereas Golden Cove will succeed Willow Cove.
According to Intel, Willow Cove will be an incremental upgrade over Sunny Cove, with faster caches and process-level optimization. On the other hand, Golden Cover may bring significant IPC increases. Therefore, Keller may be referring to the latter CPU architecture.
As Jim Keller hinted, the next-generation CPU architecture will be bigger than Sunny Cove, and will be “closer to the linear curve on performance“. Jim Keller also claims that this a really big mindset change for Intel.
Sunny Cove is Intel’s 10nm x86 core microarchitecture for an array of server and client products, including Ice Lake (Client), Ice Lake (Server), Lakefield, and the Nervana NNP-I.
Keller did not reveal any additional details, so other than that there is nothing really interesting for Intel’s next-generation CPUs. Still, Keller’s speech is quite interesting (for tech people) and you can find it below.
Kudos to our reader ‘Metal Messiah’ for bringing this to our attention, and thanks TechPowerUp.
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What’s the point of copy pasting the same few expressions in every article here? Do you think you’re being some comedic genius?
you are just replying to him…LOL
14nm+++++++
This paper stuff is always beautiful. I’ll wait for real world performance.
FWIW, Jim Keller just stated that Intel “have a roadmap to 50x more transistors” on the line.
He also promised things like better Branch prediction, a better instruction set architecture/IS, and better optimization on top of boosts to transistor count. From the looks of it, Intel is ready to innovate once again, well, sort of, IMO.
Sunny Cove already promises a 15-18% IPC boost over previous Skylake, confirming that Intel is taking the threats posed by AMD very seriously for now. But only time will tell which camp has the performance lead.
The question is if they can get their 10nm node in order.
Can you repeat that in English?
When Intel finally ships 10nm for laptops later this year, it’ll hopefully close the book on a uniquely difficult period in its own history.
Originally, 10nm was intended to ship by 2016, following delays to the company’s 14nm process. Intel has since been forced to push the date back multiple times, though the company has repeatedly stated that it will not miss its own promise to have Ice Lake on store shelves by the holiday season of 2019.
According to Intel CEO Bob Swan, that delay was caused by the company’s overly aggressive strategy for moving to its next node.
There’s no arguing the fact that Intel missed, and missed badly, on 10nm.
It’s unquestionably going to impact the company’s finances and competitive position against AMD, which is enjoying a resurgence of its own.
But when you step back and take a look at the entire semiconductor market across multiple companies, these kinds of things happen. It isn’t always driven by foundry issues, but when you toss in the possibility for designs to under-deliver, the metaphorical board lights up with examples.
I keep hearing that they are having issues on the desktop side because they can’t get near the frequencies that they have now.
Really glad to see branch prediction as an area of focus. It’s one of the biggest bottlenecks in CPU consistency today.
So their 4th 10nm interation will bring further IPC improvements? Doubt.
Who comes up with those stupid names for their CPUs? Willow Cove, Sunny Lake, Sandy Bridge? Seems like they take some high school kids hostage and force them to pump out these ridiculous titles.
All I know is…my next build is going to be AMD…most likely 3950X!
F* Intel and their decade old architecture…
pretty sad that clock for clock AMD can only barely beat that old architecture and in gaming it still cant even do that. also sad they cant get clocks up to where Intel has been for a decade. see how I can twist things and make you stupid? both AMD and Intel have their pros and cons so dont act like an idiot.
The next gen consoles will have full zen arc tho.