Intel reveals latest progress on next-generation Xeon processors with superior performance and efficient architecture

Intel's next-generation server platform, planned to be launched in 2024, will provide powerful performance cores and innovative energy-efficiency cores for key workloads, including artificial intelligence, to enhance competitiveness in the field of cloud computing.

At this year's Hot Chips event, Intel gave an in-depth analysis of its next-generation Intel® Xeon® product series based on innovative platform architecture for the first time. As an important evolution of Intel Xeon, the platform introduces a new energy-efficiency core (E-core) architecture that coexists with its existing performance core (P-core) architecture. The new products, codenamed Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids respectively, will provide customers with convenience and flexibility, as well as a compatible hardware architecture and shared software stack to meet the diverse needs of critical workloads such as artificial intelligence.

Lisa Spelman, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Xeon Scalable processors will also be released in the fourth quarter of this year, and our data center product family will be a solid force driving the industry in 2024. This is an exciting time for Intel and its Xeon product roadmap. Exciting moment."

Intel's next-generation server platform launching in 2024 will deliver powerful performance and energy efficiency for critical workloads

At the Hot Chips event, Intel showcased the technical specifications and features of its upcoming Intel Xeon platform architecture and products in 2024 and revealed its upcoming fifth-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors later this year for more information.

• Based on system-on-chip (SoCs), the new Intel Xeon platform has enhanced scalability and flexibility to provide a range of products to meet the growing scale, transmission and energy efficiency needs of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and enterprise applications. This innovative architecture also provides customers with high cost performance by providing two different socket-compatible processors that can easily handle most workloads and can be used interchangeably.

oPerformance cores and energy efficiency cores are based on shared intellectual property (IP), firmware and operating system software stacks

oHigh -speed DDR and new high-bandwidth MCR DIMMs

o New Intel Flat Memory technology enables hardware-managed data transfer between DDR5 and CXL memory, making total memory capacity visible to software

o CXL 2.0 supports all device types and is compatible with CXL 1.1

oLeading I/O with up to 136 PCIe 5.0/CXL 2.0 lanes and up to six UPI links

• The energy-efficient core Intel Xeon Scalable processor, codenamed Sierra Forest, can provide density-optimized computing performance in an industry-leading energy-saving manner. At the same time, its industry-leading power consumption and performance density also provides excellent performance advantages for cloud-native and ultra-large-scale workloads.

oRack density increased by 2.5 times and performance per watt increased by 2.4 times

o Supports 1-socket and 2-socket servers with up to 144 cores per CPU and TDP as low as 200 watts

oLeading instruction set, AVX with powerful security, virtualization and AI extensions

oBasic memory RAS features that come standard with every Xeon Scalable processor, such as machine checks, data cache ECC

• Performance-core Intel Xeon Scalable processors, codenamed Granite Rapids, are optimized to deliver low total cost of ownership (TCO) for multi-core performance-sensitive workloads and general-purpose computing workloads. At this stage, Intel Xeon Scalable processors have shown leading advantages in AI performance2, and Granite Rapids will further improve AI performance and provide significant performance and efficiency improvements for target workloads through built-in accelerators.

o 2-3x improvement in hybrid AI workload performance3

oEnhanced Intel AMX support for new FP16 instructions

oHigher memory bandwidth , core count and cache for compute-intensive workloads

oSlot scalability, supporting expansion from one to eight slots

Thanks to solid execution, Intel's data center product roadmap and products are progressing as planned. Codenamed Emerald Rapids, the fifth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors are already sampling to customers and are scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter of 2023. The energy-efficient core Intel Xeon Scalable processor, code-named Sierra Forest, is scheduled to be delivered in the first half of 2024, and the performance-core Intel Xeon Scalable processor, code-named Granite Rapids, will soon follow.

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1 Based on architectural forecasts as of August 21, 2023, compared to 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Results may vary.

2Based on performance testing using more than 350 models, using open, public source stacks and tools, and data submitted to industry benchmarking organizations with transparent rules.