Intel released a teaser video today, confirming that the Sapphire Rapids processors for workstations are coming soon. This is Intel’s first public acknowledgment that the Sapphire Rapids processor will enter the workstation field, but the specific specifications of the chip are not mentioned in the video.
In the warm-up video, a woman said: “This chip is too powerful! The task that used to be done with a room-sized computer can be completed in just 30 minutes of coffee time with this processor. The first few days I said at the meeting the other day that the final test run turned out to be very good and the time to results was very short.”
The Sapphire Rapids-WS processor may be called the Xeon W 3400 series after it goes on the market. The processors will use Intel’s new W790 platform, offering up to 56 cores, 8 channels of DDR5 memory, and 112 lanes of PCIe. Additionally, these CPUs will be based on high-performance Golden Cove-derived cores, enabling AVX-512 and AMX instructions.
