I don't believe that the chip has Radeon Graphics processors in it - the reason why I stated that is I don't believe the packing on motherboard has change to included the special packing used for board that I believe is for new Intel NUC.,
Anton said the same when we were discussing it. If it's BGA, it doesn't particularly matter, and can have its own set of sockets. If it were ever coming to LGA, it would probably need something other than LGA1151. Xeons now run on their own separate chipsets too, so it's not as if anything we've seen so far would be able to take them.
Intel does love socket, chipset and platform changes for far less reason than this. Still, wouldn't this require a significantly larger substrate than the regular 115x substrates to fit the GPU and HBM (from the looks of the render, they won't stack neatly into a ~square form with any form of ease) leading to either a) a separate socket for only this line of products, or b) oversized and unnecessarily complex sockets for all related Xeons?
The problem I see is that is such a specialize packaging and for it to support both with graphics and since Xeon's are mostly server CPU's - most will not need graphics. I only see this graphics needed in workstation environment.
My guess if they do this it will be only mobile Xeons.
While servers don't need graphics, it would add OpenCL capability while staying within a fairly low power envelope and 1U form factor, so it could still have application in a server environment.
The use case for Xeon E3 is very often desktop workstation and not servers (which was E5/E7 in the old names, can't remember the new silver/gold and number jargon), so having better integrated graphics in this series is not too surprising. And as already mentioned it is also usable in some server workloads with OpenCL.
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HStewart - Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - link
I don't believe that the chip has Radeon Graphics processors in it - the reason why I stated that is I don't believe the packing on motherboard has change to included the special packing used for board that I believe is for new Intel NUC.,Ian Cutress - Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - link
Anton said the same when we were discussing it. If it's BGA, it doesn't particularly matter, and can have its own set of sockets. If it were ever coming to LGA, it would probably need something other than LGA1151. Xeons now run on their own separate chipsets too, so it's not as if anything we've seen so far would be able to take them.Valantar - Tuesday, November 28, 2017 - link
Intel does love socket, chipset and platform changes for far less reason than this. Still, wouldn't this require a significantly larger substrate than the regular 115x substrates to fit the GPU and HBM (from the looks of the render, they won't stack neatly into a ~square form with any form of ease) leading to either a) a separate socket for only this line of products, or b) oversized and unnecessarily complex sockets for all related Xeons?HStewart - Wednesday, November 29, 2017 - link
The problem I see is that is such a specialize packaging and for it to support both with graphics and since Xeon's are mostly server CPU's - most will not need graphics. I only see this graphics needed in workstation environment.My guess if they do this it will be only mobile Xeons.
Jaybus - Thursday, November 30, 2017 - link
While servers don't need graphics, it would add OpenCL capability while staying within a fairly low power envelope and 1U form factor, so it could still have application in a server environment.AdditionalPylons - Monday, December 4, 2017 - link
The use case for Xeon E3 is very often desktop workstation and not servers (which was E5/E7 in the old names, can't remember the new silver/gold and number jargon), so having better integrated graphics in this series is not too surprising. And as already mentioned it is also usable in some server workloads with OpenCL.bananaforscale - Thursday, November 30, 2017 - link
Hmm, a Xeon system with iGPU Crossfire? :Dnanoflooder - Sunday, March 25, 2018 - link
A mistake in the table: Xeon E7 v1 was Nehalem/Westmere, there were no Sandy Bridge E7s