Intel: Cascade Lake server chips arrive before year-end

Speaking to a financial analysts during the Q3 2018 earnings call, Intel manufacturing chief Murthy confirmed that the 14nm Cascade Lake platform is on track for first shipments before the end of this year. Intel is optimistic that Cascade Lake will deliver a significant performance increase, and points out that this architecture adds support for Optane Persistent Memory and new instruction set extensions for AI.

Venkata S. M. Renduchintala - Intel Corp.
Harlan, this is Murthy. Let me take that one. Yes, you're correct. We still intend to be making first shipments of Cascade Lake by Q4, and we're really excited with the stockpile of new features we have lined up for that platform, primarily in support of our Optane Persistent Memory that we will launch in conjunction with Cascade Lake as we enter early 2019. We believe that will be a significant uplift in performance. We will also have dedicated instruction set extensions to support artificial intelligence workloads. And we'll have continued generation-over-generation CPU improvements.

So all in all, we think that Cascade Lake represents a power-packed addition to the data center roadmap. And of course, we have further excitement towards the end of next year as we launch our Cooper Lake platform as well. So we're really excited about the lineup we have in our DCG roadmap for next year and indeed, as you said, for the end of this quarter.

So far, Intel still reigns supreme in the datacenter market. AMD's EPYC has managed to capture some orders here and there, but overall AMD is still struggling to achieve broad adoption.