Sapphire Rapids

Intel has officially launched its new Xeon W-3500 and Xeon W-2500 series workstation processors based on Sapphire Rapids architecture, bringing more CPU cores, higher L3 cache, and higher frequency across the board.

Targeting data centre customers

Intel Sierra Forest, its first semiconductor for data centre customers focused on power efficiency, , would be delivered in the first half of next year.

144-core Sierra Fores and Clearwater Forest on 18A

Intel held its Data Center and AI Investor webinar earlier today, updating its Xeon roadmap, and showing progress on its P-core Xeon and E-core Xeon lineups. The big surprise was the E-core Xeon lineup, the 144-core Sierra Forest Xeon, coming in 1H 2024, and the Clearwater Forest Xeon lineup, scheduled for 2025 on Intel 18A manufacturing process. The P-Core Xeon lineup is on track with Emerald Rapids in Q4 2023, and Granite Rapids, closely following Sierra Forest in 2024.

Great if you can afford them

Intel has launched its new Xeon workstation processors, starting with the Intel Xeon W-3400 and Intel Xeon W-2400 families.

4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors

Chipzilla has announced that its Intel Sapphire Rapids chips are now officially set to be coming to workstations in 2023.

10 January 2023

Intel's Xeon Scalable processors, previously code-named Sapphire Rapids, have a launch date of 10 January 2023.

Unfortunately, it is not too sexy for Milan

New details have leaked about Intel’s upcoming Sapphire Rapids-SP 56-core processor which is intended for use in data centres and it looks like it could get a kicking from AMD’s Milan.

Sins of the 7nm, fab delays, and 5G

Back in 2015, Intel poached Murthy Renduchintala to help the company with 5G and a forward-looking roadmap, and five years after, Intel announced that Murthy would be leaving on August 3.