Report Suggests Intel Refreshing "Sapphire Rapids" - Updated Xeon-W Slated for Early 2024

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Chinese tech tipster Enthusiast Citizen (ECSM) has posted on Bilibili about future Intel product refreshes with a rough timeline spanning from late to 2023 to early 2024. We have been hearing a lot lately about Team Blue's Raptor Lake Refresh, with reports from this week suggesting that this lineup will be the last to sport Team Blue's traditional naming scheme—as 14th Gen Core. ECSM claims that Raptor Lake Refresh-K SKUs are due for launch this October, and non-K units will follow them a month or two later. Team Blue will likely be happy to keep LGA 1700 and 1800 sockets alive for another generation.

ECSM also brings up seemingly new information with an alleged Sapphire Rapids Refresh lined up for early 2024—suggesting that updated HEDT Xeon W2500 and W3500 series processors are incoming. The Intel W790 chipset should be able to run this rumored replacement lineup. ECSM's proposed product roadmap also presents wholly new product ranges including Meteor Lake offerings, albeit with desktop MTL-S SKUs cancelled—mobile-oriented Meteor Lake-H seems to be alive and well with an alleged Q4 2023 launch window. Finally Arrow Lake-S is predicted to launch in the final quarter of 2024 or early 2025—so we will likely have to wait another year and a half for upgraded Intel mainstream desktop SKUs.



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[kondamin]

in other words 7nm still doesn't work

 

[Daven]

Follow up to Ponte vecchio cancelled
Raptor Lake refresh
Sapphire Rapids refresh
Alchemist refresh

Nothing or refreshes until 2025. Go Intel!!!

 

[Chaitanya]

Even current Sapphire rapids are a no show to begin with.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Even current Sapphire rapids are a no show to begin with.

Well, there must be a huge amount of orders for supercomputers that are contracted directly with Intel and all the production capacity is for them. This AI craze is the new crypto. We're unlikely to see them in stores anytime soon. Unless there are no engineering copies offered on ebay or ali express.

 

[chris.london]

What’s the point of refreshing SPR? Emerald Rapids is supposed to be out in Q4 2023.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

What’s the point of refreshing SPR? Emerald Rapids is supposed to be out in Q4 2023.

in other words 7nm still doesn't work

 

[Squared]

What’s the point of refreshing SPR? Emerald Rapids is supposed to be out in Q4 2023.

Yeah Emerald Rapids is kind of a Sapphire Rapids refresh, so the idea of a Sapphire Rapids refresh seems unlikely. (Emerald Rapids isn't really a refresh because it does have somewhat big improvements, but it's the same Golden Cove or Raptor Cove core on the same Intel 7 process; surely it's low risk and coming to market on time.)

 

[hs4]

Well, there must be a huge amount of orders for supercomputers that are contracted directly with Intel and all the production capacity is for them. This AI craze is the new crypto. We're unlikely to see them in stores anytime soon. Unless there are no engineering copies offered on ebay or ali express.

The Threadripper 5000 series for workstations (standalone machines) also took more than six months from launch to retail, and was exclusive to Lenovo during that time.

I got a quote for a workstation last week, and both Dell and HP offered the Sapphire Rapids Xeon W, so the product is probably in distribution. New egg also stocks some SKUs of Sapphire Rapids.

What’s the point of refreshing SPR? Emerald Rapids is supposed to be out in Q4 2023.

There are two types of SPRs: monolithic and MCM; an MCM version of the EMR has been announced, but it is unclear if there will be a monolithic version, and monolithic version is likely to be an SPR refresh since there is little advantage to updating to an EMR.