After skipping tickets many times, in the first quarter of next year, Intel will launch a single/dual third-generation Xeon scalable processor code-named Ice Lake-SP, using the 10nm process for the first time and having a brand-new Sunny Cove CPU architecture.

I have seen a number of different samples of Ice Lake-SP exposed before, including 6 cores, 14 cores, 16 cores, 24 cores, 28 cores, 32 cores, and it is rumored to be up to 38 cores.

Now, a 36-core 72-thread Intel processor appears in the GeekBench 5 database. The specific identity is not identified, only "Intel $0000%" is displayed, but it must belong to Ice Lake-SP.

Surprisingly, the base frequency of this 36-core 72-thread is 3.6GHz, and the acceleration is expected to touch or even exceed 4.0GHz.

In contrast, the existing 14nm process can be expanded to a maximum of 28 cores (without considering the 56 cores of the dual-core integrated package), with a reference frequency of up to 2.9GHz and an acceleration frequency of up to 4.3GHz. 10nm can increase the reference frequency by 700MHz with the addition of 8 cores, and finally rises!

In addition, the first level instruction cache is 32KB per core, the first level data cache is 48KB per core, the second level cache is 1.25MB per core, and the third level cache shares 54MB, which is an average of 1.5MB per core, an increase of about 9%.

This exposure is still a two-way system with a total of 72 cores and 144 threads.