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2019/09/30 00:26:10 (permalink)
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Sunny Cove is codename for Intel's first truly new performance CPU core design since "Skylake," and made its debut with the company's 10 nm "Ice Lake" processors, packing the first tangible IPC increase in years. VLSI guru Jim Keller is leading the effort to build Intel's future CPU core designs, and dropped a big hint on what to expect, speaking at a gathering in U.C. Berkeley. It's unclear which specific core Keller is referring to. The immediate successor to "Sunny Cove" is codenamed "Willow Cove," and Intel's own public sketch hints at an incremental upgrade over Sunny Cove, with faster caches and process-level optimization. It's only with "Golden Cove," slated for 2021, that Intel speaks of its next round of IPC increases (dubbed "ST perf"). It's plausible that Keller is referring to this core since a 2021 launch would fit better with a 2018-19 design phase.

In his talk, Keller describes Intel's next big CPU core as being "significantly bigger" than "Sunny Cove," with its 800-wide instruction window, and "massive" data- and branch-predictors, to put Intel back on a linear performance growth trajectory between generations. Keller also commented on this being a "mindset change" at Intel, which over the past decade, only delivered minor IPC increments between generations, and focused on other areas, such as efficiency. In stark contrast, through the 1990s and 2000s, Intel delivered IPC leaps between generations, such as the one between "Netburst" and "Conroe," and onwards to "Nehalem." These were in-part helped by rapid process advancements that slowed in the 2010s as Intel approached the sub-10 nm scale.
 
Well if anyone can get Intel back on track it is Jim Keller. Intel has been slow in new CPU core technologies in my personal opinion. 

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    Re: Intel Sunny Cove Successor Significantly Bigger: Jim Keller 2019/09/30 01:08:21 (permalink)
    You are totally right, investing in Intel now is only smart to buy Intel Hades Caynuon NUC8i7 Barebone with i7 and AMD Vega inside 120W
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    They will present some EPYC now crazy fast, Intel no way to catch them. 
    No more excuses, on 4K monitor R9-3900X and RTX2080 or Navi or Vega II fps is almost identical as Intel.
    On same frequency as Intel i9-9900K, AMD R9 3900X could be faster 15% easy. 
    If Intel 6 core boost on 4GHz and AMD 6 core boost on 4GHz winner is AMD.
     
    Price of cooling, deliding, not worth 3% better fps because much higher boost frequency on i9-9900K.
    Problem is because for me, without +500MHz OC over Intel Turbo Boost, for all cores, it's not interesting.
     
     

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    Re: Intel Sunny Cove Successor Significantly Bigger: Jim Keller 2019/09/30 13:45:05 (permalink)
    Wow Jim Keller really gets around. I though he was still with Tesla working on their AI chip. Now suddenly he is with Intel.

    On the one hand I wanted him to come back to AMD after Tesla. On the other if he can get Intel back on track...

    Shame though once Intel drops his new design they will likely go right back to resting on their laurels until he steps back in with AMD.

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