Leaked Intel Ice Lake Xeon details – LGA 4187 and 8-channel memory

This change will be coming with Ice Lake, with the Power Stamp Alliance member Bel Power Solutions revealing that the platform will sport up to a 230W TDP, 8-channel memory support and release in late 2018/2019. 

The move to a new socket and an 8-channel memory configuration moves intel much closer to AMD’s EPYC series processors, which already support an 8-channel memory controller and uses the company’s colossal 4094-pin LGA SP3 socket. With the growing need for both high memory capacities and bandwidth capabilities, it makes sense that Intel would move to support 8-channel configurations, potentially allowing Intel to boost their maximum memory capacity per CPU to 1TB.