ETNews reported that Intel will launch a new Sapphire Rapids series CPU to bring DDR5 support to the server market, but it will not be mass-produced until the second quarter, or even until the second half of the year to see significant results.
In addition, industry sources said that Intel will ramp up (ramp-up) Sapphire Rapids production in May. It is said that Intel’s official release time is January 10, but only a small number of samples are expected to be available in the initial stage.
Currently, Samsung Electronics has developed 16Gb DDR5 DRAM using a 12nm-class process, and SK Hynix has developed ultra-high-speed DDR5 DRAM for servers, but it is only being used for certain testing purposes because there are no DDR5-enabled CPUs that can be properly supplied by next-generation data centers.
Park Jae-geun, president of the Korea Semiconductor Display Technology Society (a professor at Hanyang University), said, “Actual DDR5 DRAM sales may not be possible until the third or fourth quarter if data center companies perform field validation work.”
The Sapphire Rapids-WS processors may be called the Xeon W 3400 series when they become available. These processors will use Intel’s new W790 platform, offering up to 56 cores, 8 DDR5 memory lanes and 112 PCIe lanes. In addition, these CPUs will be based on high-performance Golden Cove-derived cores with AVX-512 and AMX instructions enabled.
