Xeon
At Intel's Vision 2024 event, which is being held in Phoenix, AZ, has seen several key announcements. On the datacenter CPU front, Intel is using the show to unveil their newest branding for their venerable family of Xeon processors. Beginning with this year's sixth generation of processors, Intel is "evolving" the Xeon brand by retiring the "Xeon Scalable" branding in favor of Intel's new and simplified "Xeon 6" brand. The Xeon 6 family is set to launch later this year with two primary variants: an all-performance (P) core chip codenamed Granite Rapids, and an all-efficiency (E) core chip codenamed Sierra Forest. Both of these chips will be sold under the Xeon 6 brand and sit on top of the same motherboard platform, with the Xeon...
Hot Chips 2023: Intel Details More on Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest Xeons
With the annual Hot Chips conference taking place this week, many of the industry’s biggest chip design firms are at the show, talking about their latest and/or upcoming wares...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/28/2023
Intel to Exit Prebuilt Server Business, Sells Data Center Solutions Group to MiTAC
While Intel is best known in the server space for their processors, networking gear, and other components, the company also has a small but respected prebuilt server system business...
8 by Anton Shilov on 4/12/2023
Intel Updates Data Center Roadmap: Xeons On Track - Emerald in Q4'23, Sierra Forest in H1'24
Coming to the end of the first quarter of 2023, Intel’s Data Center and AI group is finding itself at an interesting inflection point – for reasons both good...
48 by Ryan Smith on 3/29/2023
Intel Launches Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 Processors For Workstations: Up to 56 Cores and 112 PCIe 5.0 Lanes
For all of the singular focus that Intel has placed on its consumer Core desktop CPU parts in the last few years, you could be forgiven for thinking that...
62 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/15/2023
Intel Demos Sapphire Rapids Hardware Accelerator Blocks In Action At Innovation 2022
With Intel’s annual Innovation event taking place this week in San Jose, the company is looking to recapture a lot of technical momentum that has slowly been lost over...
42 by Ryan Smith on 9/28/2022
Intel Showcases Sapphire Rapids Plus HBM Xeon Performance at ISC 2022
Alongside today’s disclosure of the Rialto Bridge accelerator, Intel is also using this week’s ISC event to deliver a brief update on Sapphire Rapids, the company’s next-generation Xeon CPU...
22 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2022
Cincoze DS-1300 Industrial PC Review: Xeon-Powered Do-it-All
Industrial PCs are meant for 24x7 deployment in a wide range of environments. This brings in a host of requirements such as wide operating temperature range, ruggedness, regulatory requirements...
5 by Ganesh T S on 3/18/2022
Intel Discloses Multi-Generation Xeon Scalable Roadmap: New E-Core Only Xeons in 2024
It’s no secret that Intel’s enterprise processor platform has been stretched in recent generations. Compared to the competition, Intel is chasing its multi-die strategy while relying on a manufacturing...
147 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/17/2022
Intel Goes Full XPU: Falcon Shores to Combine x86 and Xe For Supercomputers
One of Intel’s more interesting initiatives over the past few years has been XPU – the idea of using a variety of compute architectures in order to best meet...
28 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel: Sapphire Rapids With 64 GB of HBM2e, Ponte Vecchio with 408 MB L2 Cache
This week we have the annual Supercomputing event where all the major High Performance Computing players are putting their cards on the table when it comes to hardware, installations...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/15/2021
Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids: How To Go Monolithic with Tiles
One of the critical deficits Intel has to its competition in its server platform is core count – other companies are enabling more cores by one of two routes...
99 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/31/2021
Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: CPUs (Alder Lake, Zen3, IBM Z, Sapphire Rapids)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
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ASRock Rack Announces Two ATX Ice Lake SP Motherboards
ASRock Rack has unveiled two new motherboards designed for Intel's Ice Lake SP platform, the SPC621D8 and the SPC621D8-2L2T. Both boards feature a single LGA4189 socket design on an...
5 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/3/2021
Intel Launches Xeon W-3300: Ice Lake for Workstations, up to 38 Cores
With the launch earlier this year of Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Scalable platform, the first Intel enterprise platform based on 10nm, we were always wondering to what extent this...
52 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/29/2021
Supermicro Ultra SYS-120U-TNR Review: Testing Dual 10nm Ice Lake Xeon in 1U
With the launch of Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Scalable platform comes a new socket and a range of features that vendors like Supermicro have to design for. The server...
53 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/22/2021
Intel to Launch Next-Gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon with High Bandwidth Memory
As part of today’s International Supercomputing 2021 (ISC) announcements, Intel is showcasing that it will be launching a version of its upcoming Sapphire Rapids (SPR) Xeon Scalable processor with...
150 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/28/2021
DIY on Intel Ice Lake Xeon Just Got A Little Closer
Since the launch of Intel’s Third Generation Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors in April, it was widely expected that the initial volumes of hardware would be going towards Intel’s...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/18/2021
Best CPUs for Workstations: June 2021
Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/10/2021
Supermicro: We Put Two 10nm Ice Lake Xeon LGA4189 Sockets on an ATX Motherboard
Usually, when vendors release dual-socket motherboards, this is typically done on larger form factors such as extended ATX (E-ATX) and even larger ones such as SSB-EEB for server form...
22 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/10/2021
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