Intel Saphire Rapids looks set to launch o on 10 January 2023, Intel just announced. It uses the same chiplet technology that meteor lake would use and has 4 CPU core chiplets each containing 14 performance cores for a total of 56 Golden Cove performance cores (no E cores) and a 350w TDP
Gonna be interesting to see reviews especially if they look at things like latency between chiplets to compare to AMDs solution, but I can't see them exactly setting the world alight performance wise...
Yes Golden Cove is a bit quicker than Zen3, when given a whole bunch of power, and that might've lead to some 'ok' results when going up against Zen3 but still I'd expect a 64-core Zen3 EPYC @ 280W to compete reasonably against Sapphire Rapids @350W, but they're gonna be up against 96-core Zen4 EPYC...