Skylake-EP CPU pictured

Skylake-EP CPU pictured

| Source: Chiphell Author: Mark Campbell

Skylake-EP CPU pictured

A CPU which is believed to be a 28-core 56-thread Skylake-EP V5 CPU has been pictured, a CPU which will use Intel's upcoming LGA 3647 socket.

some recent rumours are suggesting that the largest Skylake-EP series CPUs will have 32-cores and 64-threads, though this remains unconfirmed and should be considered as nothing but a rumour. Right now the largest Intel Xeon CPU has 22 cores and 44 threads, which will make the move to Skylake-EP a huge upgrade for the HPC market.

Alongside the change to the LGA 3647 socket is also the rumoured move to a 6-channel memory system, greatly increasing the maximum memory bandwidth that is available to end users. This upgrade in memory bandwidth will not mean very much to traditional PC applications but will be very important to the server and HPC market, who are moving a lot of additional data into memory and capacities continue to increase.

Below is a picture which showcases an Intel Broadwell-E CPU beside Intel's new LGA 3647 socket, showcasing the socket's huge increase in size compared to LGA 2011-V3 as well as the socket's hex-channel memory system.





Skylake-EP will be using the same 14nm process as the CPU's desktop counterparts, explaining why the CPU required an increase in size to accommodate an increase in core count when compared to Broadwell-EP.

You can join the discussion on Intel's Skylake-EP series of CPUs on the OC3D Forums.

A processor which is believed to be a 28-core 56-thread Skylake-EP LGA 3647 CPU has been picturedhttps://t.co/vTJIyRQ9Wc pic.twitter.com/dlCs6VVUKu — OC3D (@OC3D) November 21, 2016

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