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Skylake-E - LGA3647 & Hexa-Channel Memory?

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http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52336...e-processor-arrive-lga-3647-socket/index.html

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-e-lga-3647-hexa-channel-memory/

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Interesting.

Also, LGA3647... That's a lot of pins!

Of course, this could just be the Xeon/Enterprise side of things. But it looks like there may be big change coming in the next architecture.
 
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Possibly a bit of evidence that consumer Cannonlake will indeed shift to 6+ cores and Quad channel memory? What with the rumours and all and now this it does look that way.
 
Well I've said it before and I'll say it again. Skylake-E will be my next system upgrade. Hopefully it'll work out.

Lots of cores are important to me for various tasks and I'm sure a Skylake-E system will happily last me another 5 or 6 years (if not longer).
 
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Also, LGA3647... That's a lot of pins!

Of course, this could just be the Xeon/Enterprise side of things. But it looks like there may be big change coming in the next architecture.
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As well as potentially more memory channels (which makes sense as your number of cores increase), the socket probably supports more PCIe lanes. With NVMe becoming popular as a storage solution, more PCIe lanes are required.

The socket is the same for Xeons and -E i7s in previous generations, I can't see that changing as it wouldn't be economically viable to produce a separate chipset and socket for i7s.

I note there are 6 DIMM slots (and probably another 6 on the other side), so six channel memory looks likely.
 
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Maybe Intel have decide it's time for discrete graphics to die and are about unleash the Intel larrabee's upon us :p
 
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I refer to my old post a year ago:

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28081555&postcount=363

Intel is releasing two Skylake Xeon platforms in 2017: Purley & Basin Falls

Purley is the bigger platform or the big daddy Skylake Xeon platform built for 2, 4 and 8+ sockets. This will be utilising LGA 3647 and hex channel DDR4. It will be using Lewisburg PCH and be on a socket P.

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Another updated wccftech article on the subject:

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-x-kaby-lake-x-q2-2017-roadmap-leak/

It looks like Skylake-X family won’t be compatible with the new Socket P (LGA 3647) which we saw earlier. That socket is being built for 2S, 4S and 8S+ configurations so 1S processors will still feature support on Socket R that is LGA 2011-3. Intel will be however making a new PCH known as Kaby Lake PCH which will allow compatibility for the Skylake-X and Skylake-W chips.
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Basin Falls is the one socket platform codenamed Skylake W.

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Basin Falls uses 4 channel DDR4 and utilises Kabylake PCH.

The one very interesting fact about Basin Falls is that it uses socket R which is LGA 2011.

However notice that Basin falls is using LGA 2061 but it is still called socket R.

I think Skylake-X (Skylake-E) is going to be based on Basin Falls platform and will be using LGA 2061.
 
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