Rumors say that the Intel Cascade Lake Advanced Performance will have two DIEs linked by the EMIB system

Rumors suggest that the new Intel Cascade Lake Advanced Performance would have two DIE linked by EMIB technology.

The arrival of the AMD Zen architecture that gives life to the Ryzen, Threadripper and EPYC has been a problem for Intel that has seen how it has lost power in the market. Zen architecture processors are based on CCX modules, which are quad-core silicons connected with Infinity Fabric, a technology that depends on the frequency of RAM. For simple processors like Ryzen they are fine, but when scaled up like EPYCs it can be a bottleneck problem. Intel took advantage of this way of making processors to emphasize that AMD hit the DIE.

It seems that the Intel Cascade Lake Advanced Performance will have two DIEs united in a system similar to the AMD EPYC.

According to the latest information, the Cascade Lake Advanced Performance, which will be the flagship of the new high-end Xeon with 48 cores and 96 processing threads, will be based on a two-silicon system with 24 cores and 48 threads. Basically there are two differences with AMD in this case, they raise only two DIE instead of a set of them and use EMIB technology, which are a type of communication threads more efficient than Infinity Fabric, faster and not dependent on the RAM memory frequency.

Beyond the technology used and which offers better performance, silicon is reaching its natural limit and we already see how it costs Intel to go down to 10nm, GlobalFoundries has left the development of 7nm and 5nm to focus on 14nm and 12nm and Samsung has already said on occasion that reducing the size of the transistors is being more complex than expected. The future is modular processors and graphics based on various DIEs rather than monolithic solutions as before.

Intel has given performance data of the new Xeon processors based on this system ensuring that they will be more powerful than the AMD EPYC 7601. It seems that these data would be wrong again, although at the moment there has been no evidence of this and it is possible that until they come out, the information cannot be verified. Some suggest that Intel has mounted two 7601-core EPYC 32s that have had the processing threads disabled and Windows 10 installed without security patches that reduce the performance of Intel's silicones.

We want to make it clear that the latter is rumor mill at the moment and that it will be verified once these Xeons hit the market. Also clarify that there are some lax media that at the minimum that they can charge against any brand that does not pay them what they want or lend themselves to their extortion and that is why we do not use them as a valid source, because it is not reliable.

Source: G3D