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Intel Xeon 6900P.

Intel’s new 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6900P processor family is designed to compete directly with AMD’s EPYC offerings and comes in five variations.

There's the 6960P (72 cores), 6952P (96 cores), 6972P (96 cores), and 6979P (120 cores), and the flagship 6980P with 128 cores and 256 threads, with a 2.0 GHz clock speed and 504MB of L3 cache.