Intel Shoots “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 Into The Datacenter
Intel has been talking about its “Granite Rapids” Xeon 6 processors for so long that it would be easy to forget that they have not yet been formally announced.
But today, the high end of the “Granite Rapids” server CPU lineup makes its debut, several weeks before AMD is widely expected to announced its “Turin” fifth generation Epyc processors, and while we think AMD will continue to make market share gains, the combination of Granite Rapids plus the “Sierra Forest” Xeon 6 chips announced in June of this year will help Intel slow the CPU market share losses in the datacenter, even if it doesn’t reverse the trends.
And honestly, given the chip manufacturing process lead that AMD still has thanks to its partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Intel’s own woes with its foundry operations, this is the best you can expect.
As we have pointed out many times, there are design wins and supply wins, and while prior generations of Xeons were clearly only supply wins, it is fair to say that both Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids are starting to get some design wins even if what Intel is selling is still due mostly to supply wins.
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