Intel's Sierra Forest Revolution: Doubling Cores to 288 in 2024!

Intel's "Sierra Forest" Xeons will boast 288 cores, doubling the initially announced 144 cores, set to launch in the first half of 2024.

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Utilizing Intel's 3nm process node, Sierra Forest will be the pioneer in this advanced chipmaking technology.

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The chip's architecture will comprise two compute tiles, resulting in the impressive 288-core count, supplemented by 12 channels of DDR5 or MCR DRAM DIMMs.

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Unlike its predecessors, Sierra Forest will not support simultaneous multi-threading, commonly known as hyperthreading.

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The E-core design in Sierra Forest will lack Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions for AI acceleration and AVX512 support but will introduce AVX10.

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Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons will be outperformed by Sierra Forest, delivering 250% higher performance-per-watt with 2.5x more threads at the rack level.

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Intel's next-gen chip, "Clearwater Forest," is in the pipeline, aiming to transition to the groundbreaking 18A – 2nm – process technology.

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Ampere's next-gen processor, AmpereOne, will shift from Arm's cores to a proprietary design, pushing core counts to 196.

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AMD's Bergamo Epycs, launched in June, offers up to 128 SMT-enabled cores, showcasing a different architectural approach compared to Intel's dual micro-architecture in Sierra Forest.

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