Intel has announced a new market segment for Xeons called Cascade Lake Advanced Platform (CXL-AP). This represents a new, higher core count option in the Xeon Scalable family, which currently tops out at 28 cores.
Through the use of a multi-chip package CXL-APe (MCP), Intel will now be able to offer up to 48-cores, with 12 DDR4 memory channels per socket. Cascade Lake AP is being targeted at dual socket systems bringing the total core count up to 96-cores.
Intel’s Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI), introduced in Skylake-EP for multi-socket communication, is used to connect both the MCP packages on a single processor together, as well as the two processors in a 2S configuration.
These new Cascade Lake AP processors should hit the street in the first half of 2019.
More details on the entire Cascade Lake family, including Cascade Lake AP, are set to come at next week’s Supercomputing conference
