Intel Confirms Skylake Xeon D in Early 2018

[Patrick Kennedy]

In a presentation shared with us, Intel confirms that the Skylake Xeon D is set for an early 2018 launch to its channel partners

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[SGN]

Great news. Do you know any high level details like size of supported RAM, cache, PCI-E lanes, nbr of 10GbE, etc.?

 

[Patrick]

Great news. Do you know any high level details like size of supported RAM, cache, PCI-E lanes, nbr of 10GbE, etc.?

Yes.

 

[cesmith9999]

Yes.

The Yes, but I can't tell you [yet] post...

Chris

 

[Rand__]

Maybe just wrongly phrased question (Doubt it though )

 

[i386]

Yes.

>40 pcie lanes?

 

[Evan]

Always interesting
Baby Xeon is really easy and efficient to build small systems on, love mITX sizes.

 

[MiniKnight]

please quad channel memory

 

[BlueLineSwinger]

I'm just hoping this will sufficiently push down the prices of the current models. I'd love to have 2-3 such systems for home but they're currently way too expensive.

 

[Evan]

@BlueLineSwinger @Peanuthead has the d-1521 boards cheap cheap ! And also a d-1540 that’s granted not as cheap as I purchased mine from amazon but still a decent price.

Two E5 ESXI hosts and MUCH more

The d-1521’s have 10Gbase-T and the best single core clock of the Xeon-D’s, buy all 3 and build a great lab

 

[_alex]

Would love to see 3 slots pcie x8 or sas3 + 2 slots pcie x8
Or some other config that allows two HCA and run 8-12 HDD/SSD on low power

 

[i386]

sas3 + 2 slots pcie x8

Is sas3 necessary? Supermicro has some boards with 2x pcie x8 slots and a 16 port sas2 hba. (Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X10SDV-4C-7TP4F)

 

[_alex]

Oh, missed that it's 16 Ports, could work if the 2116 can do IT-Mode / JBOD.
But SAS3 would be better ...
Guess asrock had a nice board that had 3008 + 2x pcie x8 - problem was terrible availability.

 

[Evan]

pcie riser bifurcation for more PCIe support or the flex ATX boards with 2 x8 slots and a x4 m.2

Anyway back to the topic I would doubt intel will be throwing a lot more lanes, there could be flex I/O with a choice of PCIe or sata like the C3000 but I am guessing mostly a core update, also I am not really hopeful for a memory change in terms of more or even higher capacity but we can always hope and dream.

 

[SGN]

The funny part is the fact that C3000 supports 256GB of RAM. I wish to have 256GB, Quad channel and 2400MHz.

 

[Evan]

The funny part is the fact that C3000 supports 256GB of RAM. I wish to have 256GB, Quad channel and 2400MHz.

I forgot that, since 64gb dimms are not common or cheap did not come to mind, but would probably mean a max memory size bump also to match.