A prominent leaker by the name of YuuKi_AnS has posted material that appears to offer a glimpse into Intel’s upcoming Emerald Rapids. server Treatments.
The Specification documents (Opens in a new tab)The leak, which the leaker claimed recently distributed to OEMs, indicates that the more high-performance Emerald Rapids storage units will feature up to 64 cores, a level with AMD’s current generation of EPYC chips.
Emerald Rapids will also reportedly offer data transfer speeds of up to 20 GT/s, improved memory speed and up to 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes.
Intel Xeon problems
Tikradar Pro Intel has asked to confirm the accuracy of the leaked specification.
The Emerald Rapids leak arrives as Intel is still struggling to bring its next-generation Xeon Sapphire Rapids chips to the mass market.
The launch of Sapphire Rapids was punctuated by frequent delays. The new Xeon chips were originally scheduled to launch in 2021, and were pushed back first to early 2022, and then to the middle and end of the year.
The company made good on its promise to put the new chips into the hands of select customers in the first quarter, but it now looks like most of them will have to wait until the end of the first quarter of 2023 to get into silicon.
Sandra Rivera, Intel’s president of silicon data centers, explained earlier this year, “With innovation comes a level of complexity, and we see that all customers – OEMs, Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs), super users – have strong demand. To check the platform with us.”
“At this point, we’re building more platform and product validation time, so we’re seeing Sapphire Rapids ramp later in the year than we originally expected.”
Despite these delays, Rivera says Emerald Rapids is still scheduled to launch in late 2023, reducing the life span of its troubled predecessor. However, whether the chips can compete on an equal footing with Intel’s latest and greatest competitors is a separate question.
Also slated to launch in 2023, AMD’s fourth-generation EPYC chips, codenamed Genoa, will boast up to 96 cores, while a sub-variant specifically designed for Cloud Workloads will reach 128. Although the core count is not everything, the gap between Intel and AMD is now wide.
The server CPU market has long been a stronghold of Intel, whose Xeon chips have dominated practically all sub-sectors, from HPC to the cloud, but Latest numbers It suggests that AMD is poised to further undermine Intel’s lead, which could lead to its biggest-ever quarterly gain.
Meanwhile, imminent Entering the Nvidia MarketAnd the advent of Arm-based chips designed by superstars like AWS will only increase the level of competition between vendors — and put pressure on Intel.
Via Tom’s Hardware (Opens in a new tab)