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Intel’s Next-Gen Clearwater Forest “E-Core” Xeon CPU Unveiled: 12 CPU Chiplets On 18A Node, 288 Darkmont Cores, 17% IPC Increase, 2x L2 Cache Bandwidth, DDR5-8000 Support

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Intel has just unveiled new information on its next-gen Clearwater Forest “E-Core” Xeon CPUs with up to 288 cores, based on the 18A process node. Intel’s First 18A Xeon CPU, Clearwater Forest, With 288 E-Cores Unveiled, Full-On Upgrade With 12 Compute Chiplets Intel’s next-gen E-Core only “Xeon” family, codenamed Clearwater Forest, is making its way to servers soon. Just like how the Xeon 6 lineup was segmented into P-Core and E-Core flavors, such as Granite Rapids & Sierra Forest, we will see the next-gen Xeon family in P-Core only “Diamond Rapids” & E-Core only “Clear Water Forest” lineups. The P-Core […]

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