Intel officially launched the fourth generation of Intel Xeon scalable processors (codenamed “Sapphire Rapids”) to global data center customers on January 10 this year.
Intel’s latest data shows that only eight weeks after the product launch, the number of processor designs using the product set a historical record for the Intel Xeon series, and the number of available platforms and shipped platforms also hit a new high.
Intel said most mainstream OEMs and ODMs are now shipping system designs based on the fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and the top 10 cloud service providers will also deploy cloud instances based on the product this year.
Intel officials that Sapphire Rapids is Intel’s first Chiplet-based design of Xeon processors, including 52 CPUs, supporting up to 60 cores, manufactured using Intel’s 7 process, also supports PCIe 5.0, DDR5 memory and CXL 1.1 interface, providing up to 80 PCIe 5.0 channels, supporting up to Up to 80 PCIe 5.0 lanes, up to 1.5TB of DDR5-4800 memory, and a TDP of up to 350W.
