Intel’s new 14-nm Xeon W 2200 processors

  Intel once envisioned a 2018 where 10-nm processors were shipping out of its fabs, followed by a subsequent introduction of a major new core microarchitecture. However, the company’s well-chronicled delays with 10-nm meant another “optimization” generation extending Skylake one more time on 14++ was in order to fill the gap. For the Core brand processors serving high-performance PC and Entry 1S workstation (i.e., Xeon E) segments, that meant Whiskey Lake, introduced in Q2’19. And for Xeon W and Xeon Scalable, that meant Cascade Lake, essentially the 4th gen refresh of Skylake. First introduced as Xeon Scalable in Q2, the Cascade