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Intel Demoes "Sunnycove" High Performance Core

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Intel is inching closer to its December 12 "2018 Architecture Day" event targeted at assuring investors and channel partners that its short-term and intermediate-term CPU architecture roadmap looks competitive, by even demonstrating early prototypes of future architectures. One such exhibit revealed a processor demo platform codenamed "Sunnycove." It's not clear if this is a derivative of an upcoming CPU architecture (such as "Ice Lake,") or if it's the first fundamentally new CPU core design since "Nehalem."

The numbers put out by Intel scream "up to 75% more 7-zip performance," without elaborating whether they mean compression, decompression, or encryption. Speaking of the latter, this chip has some serious encryption chops, including support for new encryption instruction-sets that include SHA-NI (secure hash algorithm new instructions), and vector-AES. Much of the chip is designed to accelerate encryption, and its applications could be focused on the enterprise.



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So AVX acceleration

Hey, hey, disabling or not including vital extensions on lower end parts means you can make a press release later claiming big gains over the crippled predecessor to distract from 10nm lol. I guess this is their strategy. Talk about 2021 and beyond and ignore the present.
 
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Sounds like the same core design with more hardware accelerated features. How many users will use it enough to care
 
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Sunnycove is developed by Bulldozer/Piledriver architects and the Softmachines group acquired by Intel. Particularly, overall it is the Folsom design team which made Sunnycove and it's successor WIcove. Oceancove is the Jim Keller version and is essentially Haswell/Broadwell to Skylake level of changes.

14nm -> Sunnycove
7nm -> WIcove
7nm+ -> Oceancove

Sunnycove was built with Skylake. So, it shares the node with Skylake.
 
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That is the farthest I got out of Intel in regards to the cove pipeline.
Sunnycove(14nm) otherwise goes directly to Oceancove(7nm).

NGC(14nm) -Sunnycove- -> NGC+(7nm) -> NGC2(7nm+) -Oceancove-

On the side, there is also Atom-NGC which are smaller versions of the above cores as well. So, there is probably Atom cove cores as well.
 
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Sounds like the same core design with more hardware accelerated features. How many users will use it enough to care
You're in for a little surprise later today.

Also, its 'Sunny Cove', not 'Sunnycove' :)
 
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Regardless of what this CPU actually is, you can be sure that Intel is now finally focusing on significantly improving that critical IPC performance now that AMD is giving it a good kicking with Ryzen.

This is the kind of competition that we want and I can't wait for it to return to the graphics card space.
 
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