Intel?s upcoming Xeon Skylake Platform is coming in 2017 and promises to offer significant performance combined with features based on new technology, promising benefits across a broad variet of usage modles. Purley is the successor to the Nehalem architecture, essential the architecture of Skylake. According to slides that have appeared online on Anadtech's forums, the Intel Skylake Purley Xeon E5 and E7 processor series offer a better performance/watt, 1.5 memory bandwidth and introduce AVX-512 new instructions. The latter will offer 2x flops/core/cycle, according to Intel.

The processor platform will come enable six-channels DDR4 (384-bit wide controller, up-to DDR4-2666), and a new 100G OmniPath interconnect.

The Omni-Path Interconnect is a fiber-optic technology with bandwidth starting at 100 Gbps. The Omni-path controller will be codenamed "Storm Lake." A new 10.4 GT/s UPI interconnect will maintain communication and each socket will get three UPI channels.

Purley will support 8 processor sockets and will come with 'Cannonlake' graphics and media transcode, QuickAssist encryption and compression offloads and FPGA integration. The PCH is designed under code-name Lewisburg and it will ship with new 10G Ethernet controllers.

Purley will be the basis for 14nm processors running up-to 28 physical CPU cores, with HyperThreading enabled. This means that we are talking about up to 56 logical CPUs. The TDP is 45W up-to 165W depending on the processor model, and Socket P is the new socket to use.