Intel: By 2021 the Xeon Scalable will arrive with support for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 and with the new LGA4677 socket

First look at the LGA4677 socket for Intel Xeon Scalable processors that supports the new PCIe 5.0 standard and DDR5 DIMM socket.

It is true that Intel has not lived up to the market demands in recent years. The company continues without take out 10nm processors and that is costing you sales. It is true that AMD has needed to make the jump to 7nm and increase cores to match the 14nm processors. It seems that Intel is working on correcting these problems and is already thinking about 7nm.

Intel's 10nm is estimated to be equal to 5nm, as the density has been improved by 2.7x over 14nm. Intel's 7nm will be much better than TSMC's 5nm or at least that's what they aspire to.

Intel already working on Xeon Scalable @ 7nm

We saw this weekend how Intel removed the Omni-Path technology from the Xeon Scalable. These processors will continue to be the cornerstone of the company for the industrial sector. For the next generation they have developed the LGA4677 socket. This socket will replace the LGA3647 and will compete against EPYC processors. A solution that will not reach the market until 2021.

The new Xeon Scalable will be based on the company's own 7nm EUV node. These will already integrate PCIe 5.0 and will therefore be compatible with CXL, Intel's interconnect and scale technology. These processors will also have DDR5 DIMM support, although the latter has been fully confirmed.

During TE Connectivity, an event for the professional sector, the company has also shown a new socket. It is the LGA4189, of which we do not have more data. Possibly a socket for 'normal' Xeons.

The increase in pins for the LGA4677 socket is due to it using PCIe 5.0 and CLX. It is also increased because the PCIe lines will be significantly expanded and connectivity will be improved. The number of memory channels may also be expanded.

Source: TPU