[HN Gopher] Welcome to the Intel Ice Lake D Era with the Xeon D-...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Welcome to the Intel Ice Lake D Era with the Xeon D-2700 and D-1700
       series
        
       Author : teleforce
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-03-05 14:48 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.servethehome.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.servethehome.com)
        
       | Aardwolf wrote:
       | > With this new generation, we get not just new cores, but also
       | get PCIe Gen4
       | 
       | Aren't new CPUs supposed to get PCIe Gen5, are Xeons a generation
       | behind on this? Similarly, it has DDR4 memory while desktp CPUs
       | get DDR5 now.
       | 
       | Personally I'd just like to see a modern (=PCIe Gen5 and DDR5)
       | CPU with only performance cores (8 or more) and AVX-512...
        
         | drewg123 wrote:
         | Yes, Ice lake is 10th gen "Intel core". PCIe Gen5 / DDR5 is a
         | part of 12th Gen "Alder Lake". According to wikipedia, "Saphire
         | Rapids" is the code name for the Xeon that is based on Alder
         | Lake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_Rapids, and which
         | will have PCIe Gen5 / DDR5. I don't believe it is available
         | yet, but there are leaked benchmarks to be found..
        
         | wmf wrote:
         | Ice Lake Xeon is from last year (ish) so it has PCIe 4 and
         | DDR4. Sapphire Rapids will have PCIe 5 and DDR5 later this
         | year. Or you could try Octeon 10...
        
       | teleforce wrote:
       | These low cost embedded switches/routers based on the new Intel
       | Xeon D can be a boon for the SD-WAN and NFV/NVF eco-system based
       | on Linux at the edge and the data center[1]. All we need now is
       | Linux networking distro like Ubuntu for the networking world.
       | 
       | [1]SmartNIC Linux router for modern data center:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30260974
        
         | hagbarddenstore wrote:
         | VyOS?
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2022-03-05 23:02 UTC)