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Intel "Skylake-X" silicon is a monolithic vast processor die built on the 14 nm process. The company carved out 6-core, 8-core, 10-core SKUs in its Core i7 and Core i9 X-series socket LGA2066 HEDT SKUs on this chip, and is scheduled to launch 12-core, 14-core, 16-core, and 18-core SKUs by the end of 2017. Intel can even carve out a 20-core SKU from this chip, if it wants to. Die-shots of "Skylake-X" surfaced when the company launched the first Core X processors, along the sidelines of the 2017 Computex.
A quick glance of the "Skylake-X" die-shot revealed in Intel's presentation for the Core X family, reveals that the chip has 20 physical CPU cores. It also has its 28,160 KB (27.5 MB) of L3 cache greatly segmented into bits of 1408 KB (1.375 MB). With "Skylake-X," Intel has replaced its rather archaic "ringbus" interconnect with the new Mesh topology that cuts down latencies between distant components on the die.
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