Cooper Lake is

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's codename for the third-generation of their

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scalable processors, developed as the successor to Cascade Lake. Cooper Lake processors are targeted at the 4S and 8S segments of the server market; Ice Lake-SP serves the 1S and 2S segment.

Features

Cooper Lake was launched on June 18, 2020 and features up to 28 cores. Aside from a few microarchitectural changes, Cooper Lake's microarchitecture is mostly identical to Skylake. Cooper Lake features faster memory support (DDR4-3200 over DDR4-2933), support for second-generation

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memory, and double the UPI links over Cascade Lake. Cooper Lake is the first x86 CPU to support the new

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instruction set as a part of Intel's

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Improvements

*New bfloat16 instruction *Support for up to 12

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memory per CPU socket * Xeon Platinum supports up to eight sockets; Xeon Gold supports up to four sockets; Xeon Silver and Bronze support up to two sockets * -H: up to 1.12TB DDR4 per socket * -HL: Large DDR memory tier support (up to 4.5TB)

List of Cooper Lake processors

Xeon Platinum (octa processor)

Xeon Gold (quad processor)

References

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