Intel has unveiled its brand-new Xeon CPU roadmap which reveals three product families as a part of the Birch Stream platform.
Intel Sierra Forest, Granite Rapids, Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs Coming To Birch Stream Platform Through 2024-2025
We have already detailed Intel's next-gen P-Core Xeon family codenamed Granite Rapids and E-Core Xeon family codenamed Sierra Forest and the follow on to that known as Clearwater Forest. Today, Intel is publicly announcing that all three product families will be compatible with its new Birch Stream platform which will come in LGA 4710 and LGA 7529 flavors.
Today, Intel is confirming a few new details such as the fact that its 5th Gen Xeon family known as Emerald Rapids will be launching on 14th December and will be compatible with the existing Eagle Stream platform while offering a modest increase in core count while significantly boosting cache counts.
Intel announced AI performance updates and industry momentum for its data center and artificial intelligence product portfolio, including Gaudi2 and 3; 4th Gen Xeon; 5th Gen Intel Xeon; and future-generation Xeon processors code-named Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids. The details:
- Intel announced a large AI supercomputer will be built entirely on Intel Xeon processors and 4,000 Gaudi2 AI hardware accelerators, with Stability AI as the anchor customer.
- Dell Technologies and Intel are collaborating to offer AI solutions to meet customers wherever they are on their AI journey. PowerEdge systems with Xeon and Gaudi will support AI workloads ranging from large-scale training to base-level inferencing.
- Alibaba Cloud has reported 4th Gen Xeon as a viable solution for real-time large language model (LLM) inference in its model-serving platform DashScope, with 4th Gen Xeon achieving a 3x acceleration in response time because of its built-in Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) accelerators and other software optimizations.
- Granite Rapids will include industry-leading performance cores (P-cores), offering better AI performance than any other CPU, and a 2x to 3x boost over 4th Gen Xeon for AI workloads.
Further expanding upon its E-Core family, Intel announced that the 144-Core Sierra Forest chip we saw earlier was just a glimpse of what's to come as that utilized a single chiplet. The company also has a dual-chiplet SKU which offers 144 cores on each die for a total of 288 cores and 288 threads.
This is a record-breaking core count for an Intel chip and is likely to be very competitive against the AMD cloud offerings such as Bergamo with 128 cores, 256 threads, and its successors.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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