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Intel announces three new Xeon architectures launching within next 2 years built on 3nm and 1.8nm

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The first officially unveiled after lots of rumours is Sierra Forest: This Xeon architecture has up to 144 cores and is built on Intel's 3nm process node. Launches 2nd half of 2024. Intel says it's already fabricated and booted up a server with test Silicon of this architecture on 3nm.

But before that Intel will also be refreshing it's just launched Saphire Rapids CPUs later this year. This is called Granite Rapids and is available in in the 2nd half of 2023. These CPUs support DDR5-8800 RAM out of the box.

And then in 2025 Intel launches Clearwater Forest. Not confirmation on core counts; whether or not it's also 144 cores like Sierra Forest or if it's increased but Intel confirmed the process node - built on Intel 1.8nm



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Wonder where the target market lies for a CPU with 144 E-core and no SMT. Going to be some niche use cases for a a core count that high, but with performance per core from a few generation behind the release date.
 
Well, to be fair AMD's full cores have a hard time competing with Ecores. At least in term of die area and hence cost to make. On the other hand if this 144 cores in a monolith it would be expensive to make.

But never mind no SMT, e-cores have no holy grain (well I mean AVX 512) either. If these are for a server loads which are mostly int heavy, then I an unsure they would be able to charge to much for those. Most big cloud vendors will surely have ARM cores for that by 2024/2025?

While 144 is 12x12, 12 tiles with 12 cores each sounds like something which moves all risk to packaging.

So where does Intel's 500W Xeon server chip fit in these? Seem to recall a new item about a Xeon chip such a crazily high core count.
 
KompuKare said:
Well, to be fair AMD's full cores have a hard time competing with Ecores. At least in term of die area and hence cost to make. On the other hand if this 144 cores in a monolith it would be expensive to make.

But never mind no SMT, e-cores have no holy grain (well I mean AVX 512) either. If these are for a server loads which are mostly int heavy, then I an unsure they would be able to charge to much for those. Most big cloud vendors will surely have ARM cores for that by 2024/2025?

While 144 is 12x12, 12 tiles with 12 cores each sounds like something which moves all risk to packaging.

So where does Intel's 500W Xeon server chip fit in these? Seem to recall a new item about a Xeon chip such a crazily high core count.
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AMD has Zen 4C which is area optimised.
 
Just so you guys know, the E cores for Sierra Forest are not the same as those used on alder and Raptor lake desktop. They are brand new and are expected to have significant IPC improvements and may have other architecture changes - we just don't know at this point until Intel unveils it's new E cores next year
 
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Grim5 said:
Just so you guys know, the E cores for Sierra Forest are not the same as those used on alder and Raptor lake desktop. They are brand new and are expected to have significant IPC improvements and may have other architecture changes - we just don't know at this point until Intel unveils it's new E cores next year
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Nice, the current ones are impressive in their own right.
 
New Xeon here. https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www...essor-105m-cache-1-90-ghz/specifications.html


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Intel is the king of announcements and paper launches LOL. No matter how many resources they have, it won't be easy for them to catch up to AMD, which is working at full speed in the server market. I'm really curious to see how the situation unfolds in the next 5 years.
 
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