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The Exiled · 29.03.2023., 18:20

Novi planovi koji će se bez ikakve dvojbe obestiniti uz minimalne odgode i potencijalna otkazivanja kompletnih proizvodnih linija, jer Intel sve ovo zapravo već ima spremno.

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Intel updates Data Center roadmap: Xeons on track - Emerald in Q4'23, Sierra Forest in H1'24

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The high-level message Intel is looking to project is that the company is finally turning a corner in their critical data center business segment after some notable stumbles in 2021/2022. In the CPU space, despite the repeated Sapphire Rapids delays, Intel’s successive CPU projects remain on track, including their first all E-core Xeon processor. Meanwhile Intel’s FPGA and dedicated AI silicon (Gaudi) are similarly coming along, with new products hitting the market this year while others are taping-in. Intel is keen to show investors that they’re shipping the superior silicon, especially as AMD has the advantage in terms of core counts. So expect Intel to focus on things like their AI accelerator blocks, as well as comparisons that pitch an equal number of Sapphire Rapids (Golden Cove) and Geona (Zen 4) CPU cores against each other.

According to Intel, Emerald Rapids chips are already sampling to customers. At the same time, volume validation is already underway as well. As Emerald Rapids is a relatively straightforward successor to Sapphire Rapids, Intel is looking to avoid the long validation period that Sapphire Rapids required, which will be critical for making up for lost time and getting the next Xeon parts out by the end of this year. Customers will be able to swap out Sapphire for Emerald in their existing designs, allowing for easy upgrades of already-deployed systems, or in the case of OEMs, quickly bringing Emerald Rapids systems to the market.

Granite Rapids remains on track for its previously announced 2024 launch. The part is expected to launch “closely following” Sierra Forest, Intel’s first E-core Xeon processor, which is due in H1’24. Despite being at least a year out, Granite Forest is already to the point where the first stepping is up and running, and it’s already sampling to some Intel customers. As noted in previous disclosures, Granite Rapids is a tile-based architecture, with separate compute and I/O tiles – an evolution from Sapphire Rapids, which even in its tiled form is essentially a complete SoC in each tile. Granite Rapids’ compute tiles are being built on the Intel 3 process, Intel’s second-generation EUV node, having been pulled in from Intel 4 in its earliest incarnation. Meanwhile we still don’t have significant official information on the I/O tiles.

Sierra Forest is another previous Intel disclosure that the company is updating investors on, and is perhaps the most important of them. The use of E cores in a Xeon processor will significantly boost the number of CPU cores Intel can offer in a single CPU socket, which the company believes will be extremely important for the market going forward. Not only will the E core design improve overall compute efficiency per socket (for massively threaded workloads, at least), but it will afford cloud service providers the ability to consolidate even more virtual machine instances on to a single physical system. Like Granite Rapids, Sierra Forest is already up and running at Intel.

Izvor: AnandTech