The company has confirmed that Intel Sapphire Rapids chips will be officially coming to workstations.
Released in pencil sometime in 2023, “Sapphire Rapids” is the codename for the latest and largest iteration of Intel CPUs, which are known as 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
The chip giant says the move will give workstation users faster processing speeds than ever before, a Promotional video (Opens in a new tab) Claiming that he “used to take a whole room full of computers to do this alone, there are 30-minute coffee breaks”.
So, what do we already know?
Despite the magnitude of the news, Intel hasn’t officially revealed much about what the specifications of the new Sapphire Rapids-powered workstations could be.
Unofficially, however, the new workstation CPUs can boast “breakable” CPUs with up to 56 cores, eight memory channels, and 112 PCIe lanes, according to data from hardware leaker Enthusiastic Citizen that reported on Tom’s Hardware. (Opens in a new tab)
Intel hasn’t provided a launch schedule, which may be, as Sapphire Rapids has suffered several significant delays already.
The suite of new products was originally slated for late 2021, before a series of delays, some related to pandemic-related disruptions, pushed the release date back. (Opens in a new tab).
But it’s not just workstations that will be powered by the upcoming Sapphire Rapids technology, HPC will also get the nod.
According to a press release (Opens in a new tab) By the chip giant, Sapphire Rapids will soon be used to power supercomputers, including the Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora.
The device is set to be powered by the Xeon Max CPU, an x86-based processor, which is the highest density processor from Intel and is said to pack more than 100 billion transistors into a 47-tile package with a capacity of up to 128 gigabytes (GB) high. – Memory bandwidth.
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