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Wayne Williams

Intel's formidable 288 core CPU now has a proper family name — Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest are Xeon 6 processors but is it just becoming too confusing?

Intel Xeon 6.

In September 2023, Intel unveiled its 288-core Xeon CPU and, at the end of February 2024, began previewing it for the AI processing industry. 

Given the codename "Sierra Forest", that chip will be available in the second half of this year, while customers will have to wait until next year to get their hands on its more powerful "Granite Rapids" sibling.

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