MCST’s 16-core Elbrus won’t worry AMD and Intel, but is a sign of things to come.
MCST, a developer of microprocessors and servers from Russia, has shown off its first 16-core CPU for the first time. The Elbrus-16C system-on-chip makes another leap forward in terms of catching up with modern chips by AMD and Intel, but surprisingly the new server platform can beat AMD’s EPYC server platforms in one critical metrics: DRAM support. The MCST Elbrus-16C CPU integrates 16 cores that use a proprietary microarchitecture that run at 2GHz, an eight-channel DDR4-3200 memory controller that supports ECC,32 PCIe 3.0 lanes, four SATA 3.0 ports, and built-in 10GbE and 2.5GbE interfaces. The chip is powered by a new microarchitecture that supports hardware virtualization. The developer says that its 16-core processor will offer performance of 1.
