During its Innovation Conference, Intel introduced not solely Meteor Lake, but additionally some new Xeon options. One of those new options takes the type of a really giant CPU with a complete of 288 cores! However, there’s somewhat subtlety to it, as you’ll see.
Xeon: a 288-core mannequin unveiled by Intel!
At first look, such a mannequin may seem to be ” bye bye AMD “, but it surely’s not. In reality, to combine such a lot of cores into its processor, Intel has opted for E-Cores, or environment friendly cores as they’re recognized. Their function is to compete with ARM’s supply and AMD’s (Bergamo) Zen 4C processors… These are extra restricted in variety of cores: 128, however characteristic hyperthreading with 256 threads. Intel, alternatively, affords 288 cores and 288 threads. It stays to be seen whether or not Intel or AMD can have essentially the most environment friendly cores.
To go into somewhat extra element, the blue ones use Gracemont cores, the identical E-Core discovered within the twelfth and thirteenth era Core i programs. These are distributed throughout two tiles of 144 cores every, utilizing Intel Process 3 (5 nm). In addition to those two core arrays, the processor additionally options two I/O dies engraved with the Intel 7 course of.
What makes it doable to suit so many cores right into a processor is, after all, their simplicity. By means of comparability, with Sapphire Rapids, Intel solely managed to squeeze 56 P-Cores into one processor. This is the configuration of the Xeon W9-3495X we not too long ago. This variety of efficiency cores will likely be elevated to 64 for Emeralds Rapids and maybe 120 for Granite Rapids.
As you’ve in all probability gathered by now, this can be a Sierra Forest processor we’ve talked about a number of instances… Except that right here, we’re speaking concerning the angrier model, with twice as many cores because the mannequin unveiled in August!
