News Intel's Bartlett Lake-S is incoming, but not to desktop PCs — chips will debut for Intel's NEX group

[Admin]

Intel's Bartlett Lake-S is coming to network and edge equipment, claims new leak.

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[Pierce2623]

If they release 12 p cores on a socketed CPU, I might just consider buying Intel again.

 

[cyrusfox]

If they release 12 p cores on a socketed CPU, I might just consider buying Intel again.

Have you looked at the Xeon Workstation line? These are socketable and starts at 12P cores and goes up 56P cores. You pay workstation prices though (for middling performance).

For the economics of silicon though, e cores are here to stay on the consumer side and will only get better with each generation.

 

[bit_user]

Intel should really update their Alder Lake H0 stepping dies with Raptor Cove cores. H0 is the die that has only 6P + 0E cores, and powers somewhat popular quad-core options at the low end of their product stack, like the i3-14100.

The only complaint I've heard about H0-based CPUs is they're a little harder to cool, due to the smaller die size reducing the contact area with the heatspreader.

On the plus side, because they have fewer ring stops, they can potentially experience less latency and have demonstrated lower idle power.

 

[bit_user]

Have you looked at the Xeon Workstation line? These are socketable and starts at 12P cores and goes up 56P cores.

You didn't scroll down far enough. The 2400-series actually starts at just 6 P-cores, but be aware that they're made using the same 24 P-core die as the rest of the 2400-series, with the other 18 cores disabled.

Of course, if one really just wanted 6 P-cores, they could get an i5-12600 (non-K). However, only the Xeon W processors will give you AVX-512 and AMX.

BTW, you do raise an interesting point: what if the 12 P-core product is actually just a rebranding of their monolithic Xeon W die, with only 12 cores enabled? In that case, I wouldn't expect it to support LGA1700.