The Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest will have up to 288 Darkmont nuclei manufactured with the 18A process and distributed in 12 chiplets

Intel has revealed new details of the processors Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest Oriented to high efficiency servers with a high number of nuclei.

As we already knew, these intel xeon “Clearwater Forest” will use low performance and high efficiency nuclei “e-charts” of the Next Darkmon architecturet. In total, we will have models with up to 288 nuclei, the same as the current Sierra Forest.

To achieve this, these processors will have a chiplets design with nothing more and nothing less than 12 chiplets for the nuclei using the 3D staging and union foveros system.

As with the Sierra Forest and the current rapids rapids, the first formed with e-charts (previous Crestmont architecture) and the second by p-charts, these Clearwater Forest will be accompanied by the models with P connected under the Diamond Rapid family with up to 192 p-cores nuclei.

The Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest will be the first processors manufactured in the Intel 18A process and will be formed by 17 chiplets

The Xeon Clearwater Forest will be the first processors manufactured with the process Intel 18aone of the company’s latest hopes in its manufacturing line.

With this process, the company promises in this new generation of CPUS an increase in the CPI (Clock cycle performance) of up to 17%. It will be, therefore, the first major fire test for Intel 18A.

In addition to those 12 computing modules where the 288 cores will go, the Clearwater Forest processors will have two input/output modules located above the packaging. These modules are manufactured with the Intel 7 process and will be connected to the base modules (manufactured with the Intel 3 process), where the DDR5 controllers are through the Inteper through EMIB.

In total, 17 chiplets, modules or “tiles” will form each of these new processors, combining three different manufacturing processes.

Up to 3 TB of RAM DDR5-8000 of 12 channels in two socket systems

These processors will offer 12 DDR5 memory channels to 8000 mt/s, with a maximum bandwidth of 1,300 GB/sys a support for up to 1.5 TB of RAM. Nor will they miss 96 PCI Express 5.0 lines. We talk that in two socket systems, we will have up to 3 TB of memory DDR5-8000, 128 PCIE lines, 576 nuclei and 1,152 MB LLC.

These processors will work on the current platform, so we will have compatibility with the LGA 4710 and 7529 socket.

At the moment, there is no official launch date, but they should arrive at the end of this year or principles that come.