The Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family provides the foundation for a powerful data center platform that creates an evolutionary leap in agility and scalability. Disruptive by design, this innovative processor sets a new level of platform convergence and capabilities across compute, storage, memory, network, and security. Enterprises and cloud and communications service providers can now drive forward their most ambitious digital initiatives with a feature-rich, highly versatile platform.

2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, formerly Cascade Lake, with Intel® C620 Series Chipsets (Purley refresh), features built-in Intel® Deep Learning Boost and delivers high-performance inference and vision for AI workloads. It consolidates diverse IoT workloads, handles massive datasets and enables near-real-time transactions. Now you can get even better built-in deep learning capabilities, speed deployment, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with CPU-optimized software toolkits and frameworks such as Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit.

Foundational Enhancements

• Higher Per-Core Performance: Up to 56 cores (9200 series) and up to 28 cores (8200 series), delivering high-performance and scalability for compute-intensive workloads across compute, storage, and network usages

• Greater Memory Bandwidth/Capacity: Support for Intel® Optane™ persistent memory, supporting up-to 36 TB of system-level memory capacity when combine with traditional DRAM. 50 percent increased memory bandwidth and capacity. Support for six memory channels and up-to 4 TB of DDR4 memory, per socket, with speeds up-to 2933 MT/s (1 DPC)

• Expanded I/O: 48 lanes of PCIe* 3.0 bandwidth and throughput for demanding I/O-intensive workloads

• Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI): Four Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI) (9200 series) and up to three Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI) (8200 series) channels increase scalability of the platform to as many as two sockets (9200 series) and up to eight sockets (8200 series). Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI) offers the perfect balance between improved throughput and energy efficiency

• Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost) with VNNI: New Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost) with Vector Neural Network Instruction (VNNI) bring enhanced artificial intelligence inference performance, with up to 30X performance improvement over the previous generation4, 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors help to deliver AI readiness across the data center, to the edge and back

• Intel® Infrastructure Management Technologies (Intel® IMT): A framework for resource management, Intel® Infrastructure Management Technologies (Intel® IMT), combines multiple Intel capabilities that support platform-level detection, reporting, and configuration. This hardware-enhanced monitoring, management, and control of resources can help enable greater data center resource efficiency and utilization

• Intel® Security Libraries◊ for Data Center (Intel® SecL - DC): A set of software libraries and components, Intel® SecL-DC enables Intel hardware-based security features. The open-source libraries are modular and have a consistent interface. They can be used by customers and software developers to more easily develop solutions that help secure platforms and help protect data using Intel hardware-enhanced security features at cloud scale

• Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512): With double the FLOPS per clock cycle compared to previous-generation Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2), Intel® AVX-512 boosts performance, and throughput for the most demanding computational tasks in applications, such as modeling and simulation, data analytics and machine learning, data compression, visualization, and digital content creation

• Security without compromise: Limiting encryption overhead and performance on all secure data transactions