Thursday, June 9th 2022
Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" Volume Shipping Delayed Again: Company
Intel's ambitious next-generation server processor, Xeon "Sapphire Rapids," hit its second shipping delay this year, according to the company. Speaking at the Bank of America Securities Global Technology Conference, Intel's Sandra Rivera stated that the volume ramp for "Sapphire Rapids," is not going as planned, indicating that its general availability could be delayed for the second time after original plans to do so in the first quarter of 2022.
Riviera was quick to defend the Intel 7 silicon fabrication node (10 nm Enhanced SuperFin) that the "Sapphire Rapids" chip is based on. "One thing I didn't mention on Sapphire, it sits on - it's on our 7-nanometer node and so the process is quite healthy. In fact Alder Lake, which is our client product ramped 15 million units. I think we announced at Q1 earnings, which makes that the fastest ramping, you know one of the fastest ramping client products in almost a decade."The arrival of "Sapphire Rapids" is particularly important for Intel as demand for server processors are at an all time high, with growth in cloud data-centers. AMD is readying its 4th Generation EPYC "Genoa" Zen 4 processors for later this year. Both "Genoa" and "Sapphire Rapids" herald support for next-generation I/O, including DDR5 memory and PCI-Express Gen 5.
Source:
ComputerBase.de
Riviera was quick to defend the Intel 7 silicon fabrication node (10 nm Enhanced SuperFin) that the "Sapphire Rapids" chip is based on. "One thing I didn't mention on Sapphire, it sits on - it's on our 7-nanometer node and so the process is quite healthy. In fact Alder Lake, which is our client product ramped 15 million units. I think we announced at Q1 earnings, which makes that the fastest ramping, you know one of the fastest ramping client products in almost a decade."The arrival of "Sapphire Rapids" is particularly important for Intel as demand for server processors are at an all time high, with growth in cloud data-centers. AMD is readying its 4th Generation EPYC "Genoa" Zen 4 processors for later this year. Both "Genoa" and "Sapphire Rapids" herald support for next-generation I/O, including DDR5 memory and PCI-Express Gen 5.
23 Comments on Intel Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" Volume Shipping Delayed Again: Company
If I were a stockholder, this is not exactly the kind of statements I would want to hear....
Sooooo glad my main tech stocks are held in other companies....
But then again:
China Must Seize Apple's Chipmaker in Taiwan If Sanctioned: Economist (businessinsider.com)
www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-might-ditch-proprietary-7-nm-process-for-full-TSMC-N5-on-its-2023-Meteor-Lake-processors.617223.0.html
The reason Sapphire Rapids is going to be delayed indefinitely is because Intel can't mass-produce anything much larger than Tiger Lake 8C. That's why They patched-up the under-performing-unless-factory-overclocked Alder Lake with 8 efficiency cores, and kept the die size under 220. Raptor Lake is performing the same trick, but just doubling the efficiency cores.
Intel moto: we are good with being late.
AMD's Milan and Milan-X were already going to crush SR, and Turin will be the coupe de grace with 256 cores with Zen 5. I wonder about the scumbag, IT departments still insisting on using Intel in servers, what possible reason could they have to keep using grossly inferior products other than kickbacks and/or coercion.
It is like what, the forth delay?
Its going to be several years before Windows 11 is anywhere near feature-complete, along with actually being stable + have the broken context-menus less insane..
Do you actually need win 11 to run ADL, I have run win 10 on my 12700k with zero problems. Even if the E cores do not work on 10 it is still a very fast 8/16 core CPU. I am sure there are plenty of people running Win 10 on ADL CPU's with zero problems.
ADL does not specifically require Win 11 does it.