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Wayne Williams

Want a quad-socket server with 768 cores? Sure, Intel's 192-core Diamond Rapids Xeon CPU will deliver that in 2026 — but I wonder whether it will be too little, too late

Next gen Xeon.

Intel plans to launch its next-generation Xeon platform, codenamed Oak Stream, in 2026, which will include Diamond Rapids, a CPU built for servers and high-performance workloads.

Diamond Rapids will use Intel’s 18A process and Panther Cove cores, the same architecture coming to future consumer chips.

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