Intel Reveals 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Cores That Go Deeper, Wider, and Faster

Long criticized for reusing old cores in its recent CPUs, Intel on Wednesday showed off a new 10nm Sunny Cove core that will bring faster single-threaded and multi-threaded performance along with major speed bumps from new instructions. From a report: Sunny Cove, which many believe will go into Intel's upcoming Ice Lake-U CPUs early next year, will be 'deeper, wider, and smarter,' said Ronak Singhal, director of Intel's Architecture Cores Group.

Singhal said the three approaches should boost the performance of Sunny Cove CPUs. By doing 'deeper,' Sunny Cove cores find greater opportunities for parallelism by increasing the cache sizes. 'Wider' means the new cores will execute more operations in parallel. Compared to the Skylake architecture (which is also the basis of Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake chips), the chip goes from a 4-wide design to 5-wide. Intel says Sunny Cove also increases performance in specialized tasks by adding new instructions that will improve the speed of cryptography and AI and machine learning.

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