Items tagged with sierra forest
Mobile World Congress started today, and at the show, Intel is offering a demo of its upcoming Xeon processors code-named Sierra Forest. Those parts are expected to launch later this year, but you won't find them in desktops or even in workstations. Sierra Forest is a fairly-specialized processor meant for...
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If you haven't heard about Intel's Sierra Forest Xeons, then no, you haven't had too much coffee, and yes, you read that headline correctly. These upcoming processors are massive chips that eschew P-cores entirely for a giant platter of tiny little E-cores. That's left some wondering about performance, and while we...
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PC gamers and power users sometimes sneer at Intel's E-cores because they aren't as fast on a single thread as the company's powerful P-cores. Demanding client tasks—like many operations in creative applications as well as, of course, games—tend to be single-threaded, or at least held up by a single slow thread. In...
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We're at the end of a quarter, and you know what that means: investor meetings. Intel held a Data Center and AI Investor Webinar today, and along with the usual boring money talk, revealed a few key details about its upcoming Xeon products. Those include the E-core-only Sierra Forest and Clearwater Forest CPUs as well...
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Four days ago, we reported on a leak revealing quite a few key details about Intel's upcoming ultra-high-end server platform for Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest-family Xeon processors. Well, today, we've got what purports to be a pile of leaked screenshots of early sample motherboards for those processors, and it's a...
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