News Intel Birch Stream-AP Platform for Sierra Forest CPUs Listed With LGA 7529 Socket

[Admin]

A semiconductor tool provider's listing suggests that Intel uses LGA 7529 socket for its 2023 Sierra Forst server processors.

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[JayNor]

I see rumors of zen4 Genoa chips with 12 memory channels. Intel's Sapphire Rapids is rumored to have 8 ddr5 memory channels, but also four stacks of HBM memory, which could be configured as additional memory channels. We could get more details in August from the Hotchips presentation on Sapphire Rapids.

The Habana Gaudi architecture seems to be what is needed for ai/hpc processing... lots of IO relative to core count, and removing the L3 bottleneck. However, looks like Intel wants to use IPUs for the ethernet IO and funnel everything to the XPUs with PCIE/CXL.