2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable “Cascade Lake”

To support new CPUs, OEMs need to supply BIOS updates, validate new CPUs, and then start adding them into their Dell EMC PowerEdge R740/ R740xd and HP proliant DL Gen 10 servers.

1. More coresin the SKU stack have minor clock speed bumps and thus performance improvements accompanying the core count increases
2. Same clock-for-clock IPCperformance as the first generation
3. Memory speeds and capacities have increased, now to a maximum of DDR4-2933 speeds and 256GB LRDIMM support
4. Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modulesupport (DCPMM) for persistent, high-capacity, high-performance modules in DDR4 sockets
5. New hardware security mitigationsand fixes for the side channel/ speculative execution families of vulnerabilities, e.g. Spectre/ Meltdown and L1TF
6. Intel DL Boostusing the new VNNI instruction to allow faster AI inferencing without GPUs
7. New quad CPU packaging into a half-width dual-socket Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 seriesto increase density for the HPC space