YuuKi AnS, a well-known leaker, has posted materials that seem to provide a sneak peek at Intel's future Emerald Rapids server chips.
The most powerful Emerald Rapids SKUs are expected to have up to 64 cores, matching AMD's current-generation EPYC chips, according to specification documents(opens in new tab), which the leaker alleges were recently delivered to OEMs.
Additionally, according to reports, Emerald Rapids will offer up to 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes, enhanced memory speed, and data transfer rates of up to 20 GT/s.
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As Intel struggles to commercialise its upcoming Xeon Sapphire Rapids CPUs, the Emerald Rapids leak appears.
Recurrent delays have marred the implementation of Sapphire Rapids. The new Xeon CPUs' release date was initially postponed from 2021 to 2022, then to the middle and end of the year.
While the company did as it promised to deliver the new chips to a small number of customers in Q1, it now seems that the majority will have to wait until the end of Q1 2023 to get their hands on the silicon.
Sandra Rivera, Intel's president of data centre silicon, said earlier this year: "With innovation comes a level of complexity, and we see all clients - OEMs, ODMs, the hyperscalers - have high desire for platform validation with us."
We are currently factoring in longer platform and product validation time, so we anticipate that the Sapphire Rapids ramp will occur later in the year than we had anticipated.
Emerald Rapids, which would shorten the lifespan of its disastrous predecessor, is still expected to debut in late 2023, according to Rivera, despite these delays. A different question is whether the processors can hold their own against the most cutting-edge products from Intel's competitors.
AMD's fourth-generation EPYC chips, code-named Genoa, are scheduled to debut in 2023 and will have up to 96 cores; a separate variant created exclusively for cloud workloads would have up to 128 cores. Although core count isn't everything, there is now a big difference between Intel and AMD.
The server CPU market has historically been a stronghold for Intel, whose Xeon chips have dominated virtually all sub-sectors, from high performance computing to the cloud. However, the most recent data suggests AMD is poised to further erode Intel's lead and record potentially its largest ever quarterly gain.
Meanwhile, Nvidia's impending entry into the market and the popularity of Arm-based processors produced by hyperscalers like AWS will increase vendor competition and put pressure on Intel.
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