{"id":33201,"date":"2020-03-05T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cybercon1.com\/?p=33201"},"modified":"2020-03-05T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:18:00","slug":"intel-drops-a-bomb-on-the-5g-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/05\/intel-drops-a-bomb-on-the-5g-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Drops A Bomb On The 5G Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Snow Ridge (Atom P5900 series) is based on the 10nm Atom Tremont architecture. It features up to 24 cores with a 2.2GHz base clock, up from 16 cores in the Atom C3000 series. Like Ice Lake and Haswell\/Broadwell, it also features fully integrated voltage regulators (FIVR). Also like Ice Lake, it features a scalable coherent fabric for interconnecting the CPU and network accelerators. In the Nervana NNP-I, this was used to connect the CPU cores to the inferencing cores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2017\/04\/10\/07\/57\/processor-2217771__340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"147\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atom C3000 series is based on 14nm Goldmont, which was succeeded by Goldmont Plus. Intel claims Tremont improves IPC (instructions per cycle) by 30% compared to Goldmont Plus, and Goldmont Plus had a similar IPC increase compared to Goldmont, so the performance per clock has increased considerably. Intel claims 1.8x increased integer throughput.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as it is aimed at the network infrastructure, it features a number of network acceleration technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New Dynamic Load Balancer with up to 3.7x packet-processing throughput versus software queue management<\/li><li>100Gbps QuickAssist Technology (5.6x vs. software, but unchanged compared to C3000)<\/li><li>440Gbps switching connectivity with 20 integrated Ethernet SerDes<\/li><li>Integrated 100Gbps Ethernet 800 series: Intel claims 16% more throughput vs. an external NIC<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Intel claims single-threaded packet-processing throughput is increased by 1.6x. For comparison, the first-generation C3000 CPUs had only 10Gbps Ethernet and 20Gbps QAT, at up to 32W TDP. Intel has not disclosed TDP of Snow Ridge, nor pricing.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?rct=j&amp;sa=t&amp;url=https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4327723-intel-drops-bomb-on-5g-network&amp;ct=ga&amp;cd=CAEYACoTODk3NzAxMjU0ODU3MjMyMDg0MjIaMmMyZWEyOGNkOTkxOWZhZTpjb206ZW46VVM&amp;usg=AFQjCNGe5mDC1vgo3FEhVIDsn6U9aE7CXw\">Read On:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow Ridge (Atom P5900 series) is based on the 10nm Atom Tremont architecture. It features up to 24 cores with a 2.2GHz base clock, up from 16 cores in the Atom C3000 series. Like Ice Lake and Haswell\/Broadwell, it also <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/05\/intel-drops-a-bomb-on-the-5g-network\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[156,157],"class_list":["post-33201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","category-networking","tag-infrastructure","tag-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cyberconservices.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}