Intel has teased a bit more details regarding its upcoming 18-core Haswell-EX CPU, the Intel Xeon E7 v3 "Haswell-EX", which will be a part of the new Intel Xeon E7 platform.

While it kept all the interesting information regarding the new Xeon E7 v3 "Haswell-EX" for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) scheduled for February 2015, Intel did reveal that the Xeon E7 v3 "Haswell-EX" will be the most complex CPU the company has ever made.

The new Intel Xeon E7 v3 "Haswell-EX" will be a part of Intel's upcoming Xeon E7 platform and be based on 22nm Tri-Gate manufacturing process, pack 5.56 billion transistors on a 663.5mm2 die, and feature some rather impressive specifications.

While it still did not reveal any details regarding clock speeds or the performance, Intel did note that the Xeon E7 v3 "Haswell-EX" will work in up to eight socket motherboards, have 18-cores with support for Hyper-Threading, adding up to 36 threads per CPU, as well as pack 45MB of las-level cache (LLC), quad-channel DDR4 memory support and PCI-Express 3.0 support.

As noted, Intel will reveal more details regarding the new Xeon E7 v3 "Haswell-EX" CPUs in the February next year, these CPUs are expected to be officially launched sometime in the second quarter of next year.



Source: via KitGuru.net