Intel's formidable 288 core CPU now has a proper family name Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest are Xeon 6 processors but is it just becoming too confusing?

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Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:39:31 +0000

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Intel's evolved Xeon 6 brand will comprise of both Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest processors.

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In September 2023, Intel unveiled its 288-core Xeon CPU and, at the end of February 2024, began previewing it for the AI processing industry.

Given the codename "Sierra Forest", that chip will be available in the second half of this year, while customers will have to wait until next year to get their hands on its more powerful "Granite Rapids" sibling.

Intel has now rebranded its Xeon family of processors, replacing the "Xeon Scalable" name, which first hit the market in 2017 with the Xeon Platinum
8100 series, with "Xeon 6. This new brand will include the all-efficiency (E) Sierra Forest chip and the performance (P) Granite Rapid one. Amplify performance signals

The Sierra Forest data center chip is the first with an architecture
comprised entirely of efficiency cores (E-cores), designed to deliver boost performance of 5G workloads by 2.7 times per rack, according to Intel. When
it arrives, Granite Rapids (with P-cores) will build upon the doubled vRAN workload processing capacity offered by Sapphire Rapids and increase performance even further via Intel AVX and vRAN Boost.

Both Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest variants share the same platform (including the chiplet-based design, sockets. memory, and firmware) and thus will use the shared Xeon 6 nomenclature, a move which Intel hopes will make everything clearer for customers.

The company says the evolved Xeon 6 branding will tell a united Intel Xeon story, Ease customer navigation, and Amplify performance signals.

Intels existing "Emerald Rapids" 5th-Gen Xeon Scalable Processor models wont see a rebrand. It has been said with the current-gen Xeon product stack that Intels branding can be more than a little confusing , and the company obviously feels its best to start afresh with the new Xeon 6 brand and focus on making things simpler going forward. More from TechRadar Pro Intel bets on a secret weapon to beat AMD in some AI workloads Intel unveils 288-core Leviathan 5th-gen Xeon CPU Intel could move away from regular CPU releases



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