It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. The chip designer and maker – the last one in th

Finally: Some Good News For The Intel Xeon CPU Roadmap

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2023-03-31 23:30:03

It was a reasonable enough gut reaction given the many changes happening at Intel in recent months. The chip designer and maker – the last one in the world that does both – had announced a datacenter product line update for Wall Street analysts only a week after Raja Koduri, the former AMD GPU chief architect who had that same task at Intel, announced his departure.

So naturally, before that Wall Street call happened, we wondered if Intel was going to shut down its discrete GPU. It is important to not jump to conclusions in life, and in a prebriefing with Ronak Singhal, the chief architect of the Xeon line and a Senior Fellow, ahead of that meeting, we expressed exasperation that such a thing had come to pass. And we had a good laugh at our own expense.

Luckily, there was no more bad news out of Intel, and in fact, the company is doing better with its 18A chip manufacturing process, so much so that it is pulling in the delivery of one of its future performance-class Xeon SP chips. And, in a good mood and soon to be under threat with the impending 128-core “Bergamo” Epyc processors from AMD and already feeling the heat from the current 128-core Altra Max CPUs from Ampere Computing, Intel also decided to divulged some information about “Clearwater Forest,” a successor to its first efficient-class Xeon SP, code-named “Sierra Forest,” that is coming later this year.

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