Comments on: Intel Granite Rapids-D Set for a 2025 Launch and More from MWC

By: Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry

Laurence "GreenReaper" Parry — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 20:58:52 +0000

Apparently Nokia complained about just that when Intel tried to push it for 5G solutions.

By: etorix

etorix — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:17:08 +0000

For the sake of power efficiency, I would have expected the next Xeon-D to use E-cores (i.e. Sierra Forest-D rather than Granite Rapids-D).
Is there a use for AI acceleration in edge servers???

By: Kevin G

Kevin G — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:55:29 +0000

Broadwell-D was an excellent product when it launched and the D lineup was targeted to lead the server line up with new manufacturing nodes (with the then EP and EX lines following later). The problem was this plan was right when Intel moved to 14 nm which they were on for a long, long time. I believe that there was a Cannon Lake-D briefly discussed before Ice Lake-D. The former would have been only rumor while the former did release, it was simply cut down Ice Lake SP dies instead of a new market targeted die. Sapphire Rapids includes many of the accelerators that the Xeon D line up featured so there is more overlap than ever before but the Xeon D also tended to include various networking IO when it started out. I’d be nice to have a Xeon D in the future supporting lots of SFP112 ports for 100 Gbit Ethernet or a couple of QSP112 ports for 400 Gbit Ethernet. I also think Intel should have retained their FPGA division instead of spinning it off so that it’d be trivial to include programmable logic inside these network focused chips, at least as a chiplet option.

By: mashie

mashie — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:16:36 +0000

288 cores in a single package, it will be interesting to see how the cost per core will be compared to lower core parts.