It is not clear what happened to the Intel 4 process (what we would have called a rev on the 7 nanometer process), but clearly if Intel is going to assert undeniable and unquestioned “transistor performance per watt leadership” by 2025, as it has promised, it needs to leapfrog its own process roadmap at Intel Foundry Services to catch up with what AMD and the Arm collective will be doing with transistor etching techniques from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. We touched base with Ronak Singhal, senior fellow and chief architect for Xeon roadmap and technology – which is a funny way of saying that Singhal bridges between customers, Intel marketing, and Intel chip designers to get the right server CPUs into the field – to get a little more insight into the roadmap that was shown. And while the real Intel Xeon SP roadmap does not have a lot of detail on it, it does have two interesting things going on that you need to be aware of. Today, at the Investor Day event that Intel is holding mostly online – there are some onsite events for actual Wall Streeters – the company did indeed put out an official, updated, and wholly real roadmap for the Xeon SP server CPU lineup. The engineers who design and the marketeers who sell Intel’s Xeon SP processors were mostly amused, and somewhat annoyed by, this stunt – and make no mistake, we know it was a stunt designed explicitly to get people talking and maybe get some real roadmaps out of Intel. In the absence of a proper roadmap, someone has to try to figure out what might happen on the server front, and we figured readers would pipe up if we went first.

We were complaining a few weeks ago that Intel had not put out a server processor roadmap of any substance in a long time, and instead of just leaving it at that, we created our own Xeon SP roadmap based on rumors, speculation, hunches, and desires.

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