Intel's release schedules have been slowing down, unfortunately in a large part that is due to the fact that the only competition they face in certain market segments is themselves. For high end servers it looks like we won't see Haswell-EX or EP4S until the second half of next year and Skylake chips for entry level servers until after the third quarter. Intel does have to fight for their share of the SoC and low powered chips, DigiTimes reports the Broadwell-DE family and the C2750 and C2350 should be here in the second quarter which gives AMD and ARM a chance to gain market share against Intel's current offerings. Along with the arrival of the new chips we will also see older models from Itanium, Xeon, Xeon Phi and Atom be discontinued; some may be gone before the end of the year. You have already heard the bad news about Broadwell-E.
"Intel's next-generation server processors for 2015 including new Haswell-EX (Xeon E7 v3 series) and -EP4S (Xeon E5-4600 v3 series), are scheduled to be released in the second quarter of 2015, giving clients more time to transition to the new platform, according to industry sources."
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FYI the C2750/C2350 Avoton
FYI the C2750/C2350 Avoton atoms have been out since the start of the year. They have been quite popular among the low power home server folks.
I’ve been waiting for DDR4 based product before I buy into a new home server machine. Sadly I don’t believe the Broadwell-DE stuff will be using DDR4. Why would anyone buy a server platform that is using a memory system that is at the end of it’s life? This confuses me greatly.
I don’t see the point in
I don’t see the point in anyone doing CPU upgrades atm anyways. I also think intel should hold out until the end of 2016 for skylake to also include the PCIe 4.0 controller.
How’s that Ultrabook market
How’s that Ultrabook market working out for Intel, they should have been trying to make regular form factor laptops with more powerful SOCs instead of forcing OEMs to compete with Apple’s economy of scale. Intel should have been applying contra revenue to it’s thunderbolt products for the non Apple PC market, Instead of forcing the OEM’s into the ultrabook/phone market fiasco. Now Thunderbolt has become the next firewire, and regular laptop buyers are choosing to hold onto their older more powerful regular form factor laptops, and wait for next year for any more powerful affordable SKUs on regular laptops/PCs. Regular laptops with Thunderbolt, a Thunderbolt with the driver support for external graphics cards, and enclosures, so that laptops could add more gaming ability, could have been a breakout hit, but Intel was more interested in buying its way into the mobile market with billions of dollars of contra revenue, and little growth in mobile market share, except for the high end uber expensive(non contra revenue) M$ tablets, tablets that can and do cost more than Apple’s MacBook air, or entry level MacBook pro.
Intel, and M$ have abandoned the Home Server market, and instead are trying to get into already mature markets, where the high margin SKUs can not compete, such as the IOT market, and phones and mainstream tablets. Intel has been ignoring the need for Better Graphics on its low cost SOC products, and instead trying to milk the market with as little technological advancements as possible, and allowed the custom ARM based products from Nvidia/Apple to offer better SOC graphics, and custom CPU cores that are approaching low end core i series SKUs in processing power.
I find no reason to upgrade my regular laptop, dew to the fact that Intel is not currently supporting enough advancement in more powerful processors for regular laptops/PCs, and even the Mac Minis are now hobbled with low power SKUs, and no quad core options, or even the popular server variant that Apple offered in the past, and Intel even made Apple late with any meaningful product updates, dew to delay in new SOC SKUs. Apple must have gotten a great deal from Intel, to take some underpowered ultrabook SKUs, and totally gimp down the Mac Mini line into a so called “most power efficient desktop” and rob the mac mini users of their most desirable mac mini SKUs, and now the mac mini is little more than a laptop with out an LCD or keyboard.
Really Intel, and M$, what a mess you both have made of the Laptop/PC market, I do hope that AMD can get its new x86 microarchitecture to market, along with its custom ARMv8 ISA based competitor to Nvidia’s Denver K1, so the mobile/laptop SOC devices market can benefit from much better integrated GPU competition.
Hopefully Soft Machines will begin Licensing their VISC technology to all the SOC makers, and it appears that Soft Machines wants the license their technology to any and all with an ARM license, or x86 license, or any other ISA, that can be made to run on top of Soft Machines VISC IP, with no more than a 5% penalty to convert from any ISA to the VISC Internal ISA, and run more efficiently through its virtualized hardware/firmware front end, across multiple physical cores. AMD is a big investor, along with GlobalFoundries, and other big industry players.
It’s a shame that Intel has become more of a technology milker, rather than a technology innovator, but that is what happens with monopolies, they are only interested in market share, and drain all funding away from improving their basic microarchitecture/products. Intel has been spending big on maintaining the fab process lead, at the expense of any new and meaningful microarchitecture innovation, or meaningful integrated GPU improvements. Intel is instead spending billions on contra revenue, money that would be better used for real innovation. Just look where the VISC innovation came from, two former Intel engineers, Mohammed Abdallah, and Mahesh Lingareddy, founded Soft Machines. Big companies like Intel, and IBM before them, become past their prime, when you begin to see these companies’ former employees start up ventures and out innovate the incumbents, and hopefully this new technology will be licensed, ARM holdings style, and benefit the entire industry, at least IBM has seen the light, and has begun to offer the Power8 IP up for licensing across a whole industry.
They can take their 5% CPU
They can take their 5% CPU increase and shove it up their ass anyways. Past 3-4 years have been a snoozefest anyways.
Kind of ironic how you hear about “PC Era declining” and yet it’s lack of pushing the envelope and giving people reasons to upgrade further compounds that. I mean for all the, “We have more CPU Power than we ever need!” argument, people forget that consumers will just as easily buy into it if it’s actually true. It’s hard to sale 15% [negligible] performance gains from Sandy Bridge to Broadwell.
Any chance we will see
Any chance we will see broadwell for 1150 early next year?