At STH, we have been talking about the Intel Clearwater Forest part for what feels like a long time. The wait is not over yet since Clearwater Forest

This is Intel Clearwater Forest the Next-Gen E-Core Xeon

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2024-09-27 17:00:07

At STH, we have been talking about the Intel Clearwater Forest part for what feels like a long time. The wait is not over yet since Clearwater Forest is scheduled for 2025. The chip will use new packaging technology as well as the new Intel 18A process. Last week, STH got to see the chip up close.

At the event for the Intel Xeon 6900P series last week in Oregon, Intel brought out some of the Clearwater Forest CPUs. What is even more exciting is that we grabbed photos of not just the new Intel Xeon 6 parts but also of the high-core count next-generation E-core Xeon. Here is a close up of Clearwater Forest.

If things look a bit different on the three middle rows of compute tiles, perhaps they should. Earlier this year, Intel showed us that each of these rows look more like four small compute tiles arranged in rows.

One will also quickly notice that the CPU package itself is constructed very differently than the Sierra Forest-AP and Granite Rapids-AP parts sitting next to it here.