Jun 05, 2024 12:13:00

Intel officially announces the 'Xeon 6 6700E' data center CPU capable of equipping up to 144 E-cores, with models with 288 E-cores and models with up to 128 P-cores also planned for release

On June 4, 2024, Intel announced new products to be added to its data center CPU brand,

Xeon 6 , and released details of one of these products , the Xeon 6 6700E , which is equipped with up to 144 E cores .

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gave a keynote speech at the Taipei International Computer Show , which has been held in Taiwan since June 4, 2024. In it, Gelsinger officially announced the 'Xeon 6 6700E', a CPU for data centers that has previously been called 'Sierra Forest'.

The Xeon 6 6700E is a broad portfolio of seven products in the Xeon 6 product family, a CPU architecture that aims to achieve data center performance and density goals, and features up to 144 power-efficient E-cores.

The Xeon 6 CPUs are manufactured on the new

Intel 3 process node, which provides more power and performance than previous CPUs, and are tailored for web and scale-out containerized microservices environments, networking, content delivery networks, cloud services, and AI workloads.

The Xeon 6 processor is a step forward in modularizing the chips installed in the package, compared to the previous generation

5th generation Xeon processor . While the 'I/O die' that manages the I/O remains the same, the 'Compute die' that houses the CPU can be flexibly changed depending on the number of CPU cores.

The performance of the Xeon 6 6700E is approximately 4.2 times higher and its power efficiency is approximately 2.6 times higher than that of the Intel Xeon Platinum 9282 announced in 2019.

Intel claims that this performance improvement will enable server room racks to be reduced by approximately 30%.

Intel has also revealed that the 'Xeon 6 P-cores', called 'Granite Rapids', which can be equipped with up to 86 P-cores, will be released in the third quarter of 2024, and that models with 128 P-cores and 288 E-cores, the '6900 series', are scheduled to be released in 2025.