Intel Xeon 6+ ‘Clearwater Forest’ puts 18A in the data center with up to 288 cores, 576 MB of L3 cache — new Xeon 6990E+ is 30% faster per thread than 192-core AMD Epyc 9965, says Intel
Intel has launched its new Xeon 6+ 'Clearwater Forest' processors, marking the first deployment of its 18A manufacturing process in the data center. The flagship Xeon 6990E+ features up to 288 cores and boasts a 30% per-thread performance increase and improved power efficiency over AMD's Epyc 9965. This new processor line utilizes a disaggregated design with multiple chiplets built on various Intel process nodes, including 12A for the CPU chiplets, and integrates several hardware accelerators for tasks like data streaming and in-memory analytics. AI
IMPACT This processor's high core count and efficiency could accelerate AI and data center workloads.