Posted on Tuesday, August 14 2018 @ 16:42 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Word is going around that Intel's next HEDT chipset will be called X599 as the firm is skipping the "X499". This chipset will support the upcoming Skylake-X XCC (extreme core-count) processors, which includes an 28-core model and likely also 24-core and 26-core editions. This is basically the consumer version of the Intel C629 "Lewisburg" chipset and the Xeon Platinum 8180.
This chipset will support new SKUs derived from the "Skylake-X" XCC silicon (probably 24-core, 26-core, and 28-core), in the LGA3647 package. The platform features not just up to 28 cores, but also a 6-channel DDR4 memory interface, which will probably support up to 192 GB of memory on the client-platform. There's also a rumor that Intel could launch new 20-core and 22-core LGA2066 processors. Those, coupled with the 8-core LGA1151 processor, will be Intel's fig-leaf until late-2019.
Via: TPU
