Intel Unveils 18A-Built Xeon 6+ Data Center CPUs, Clearwater Forest AI Chips And More At Computex
Intel brought along a pile of products to Computex, and while the one that got this writer most excited was the early announcement of the Arc G3 series, the company's data center group has some pretty darn big news, too. Today marks the launch of the Intel Xeon 6+ processors, codenamed Clearwater Forest, but they're not the only news, just the biggest.
So we'll start there. Clearwater Forest is Intel's latest server product, featuring up to 288 Darkmont CPU cores in a single socket. Built on its most cutting-edge 18A fabrication process, Xeon 6+ offers what Intel says is "market-leading rack density" and what it claims is the best performance per thread on the market. That claim seems silly when you think that it's made up entirely of E-cores, but therein lies the trick: E-cores don't have Hyper-Threading, so where a Zen 5 processor is using one core to serve...
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