Intel Ocean Cove could be the next new Intel CPU core code name
https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel-ocean-cove-code-name
https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel-ocean-cove-code-name
...the new code name from the big blue chip giant is Intel Ocean Cove. Or might be. We’re not sure, but in a job listing spotted by Sweclockers Intel are chasing up a new senior CPU microarchitect to “join the Ocean Cove team to deliver the next generation core design.”
Intel have today completely ripped out the section which references Ocean Cove from the Intel have today completely ripped out the section which references Ocean Cove from the listing, along with their stated goal of creating a “revolutionary microprocessor core to power the next decade of computing.”
Revolutionary eh? I can think of a few notable revolutionary architectures.
Netburst
Bulldozer
Itanium
You change too much for the sake of change and you very much risk breaking code compatibility, or killing performance. Hardware/Software should always be a black box to consumers that are easiest to use as possible. Engineering work must be done to make that possible.
Core 2 chips further improved areas that were refined for decades, and new ideas were there to augment them. That worked brilliantly. Ryzen went back to its roots by making it an expansion of their older architectures, and updated ideas that were more in line with what Intel was using with their latest cores. That worked well too.
I am sure Jim Keller and Raja Koduri are going to set realistic goals and make sure the team comes up with a NGC which takes the best of what Intel has currently and improves it further, serving as the foundation for the next decade of CPUs from Intel. The main change will be to adapt Intel's design approach for chiplets and heterogeneous processes where various IP blocks are going to reside on different dies and will probably be built at different process nodes. I can see the cores being on the leading edge (n) and memory & IO being on a n-1 node .
Yeah, definitely feel this is what drew Keller in - the chance to design another ground up uarchitecture.
When will they fix meltdown and Spectre?
Please stay on topic.
Revolutionary eh? I can think of a few notable revolutionary architectures.
Netburst
Bulldozer
Itanium
You change too much for the sake of change and you very much risk breaking code compatibility, or killing performance. Hardware/Software should always be a black box to consumers that are easiest to use as possible. Engineering work must be done to make that possible.
Core 2 chips further improved areas that were refined for decades, and new ideas were there to augment them. That worked brilliantly. Ryzen went back to its roots by making it an expansion of their older architectures, and updated ideas that were more in line with what Intel was using with their latest cores. That worked well too.
It's not off topicPlease stay on topic.
Bingo, if they are coming with a completely new architecture....then wouldn't it make sense to remove those vulnerabilities?It is not that off topic.
If Intel will develop a new cpu architecture, they would want an architecture that has not the same security flaws.
So they have to design a new architecture that is not vulnerable to either meltdown or spectre but is still a high performance core that should be faster than the latest and greatest from Intel.
That is quite the task to perform, because speculative execution and out of order execution is where most of the speed of the best performing x86 and arm cores comes from.
It's not off topic
Revolutionary eh? I can think of a few notable revolutionary architectures.
Netburst
Bulldozer
Itanium
You change too much for the sake of change and you very much risk breaking code compatibility, or killing performance. Hardware/Software should always be a black box to consumers that are easiest to use as possible. Engineering work must be done to make that possible.
Core 2 chips further improved areas that were refined for decades, and new ideas were there to augment them. That worked brilliantly. Ryzen went back to its roots by making it an expansion of their older architectures, and updated ideas that were more in line with what Intel was using with their latest cores. That worked well too.
Software.SW? Google-fu and Wki-mess give no hint.
Intel's golden handcuffs wed it to x86 support. They are likely just looking for some out of the box re-imagining of a 64 bit optimized uarch. Interesting times!
If Intel needs an emulator to run x86 code then AMD will eat their lunch for sure!I'm opting for Moonbogg's alien technology I think that something completely new and modern is the way forward rather than redesigning the old and then sleepwalking with that for another decade. Unless they'd enjoy being overtaken by their sole competitor in the near future.
They already said, several times, when those would be fixed.When will they fix meltdown and Spectre?
Didn't JK want to make a new kind of ARM core with AMD before he left? I thought I read that somewhere.