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Intel "Granite Rapids-D" Xeon Processors Come in Core-count and Memory-channel Based Physical Variants

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The "Granite Rapids-D" line of upcoming processors are designed for data-center servers on the edge. These non-socketed processors come in BGA4368 packages. The company is reportedly readying at least two key variants of these chips based on core-counts and memory channels. The "Granite Rapids-D" HCC (high core-count) is an MCM of a "Granite Rapids" LCC (low-core count) compute tile, and a single I/O tile with a 4-channel DDR5 memory interface.

The "Granite Rapids-D" XCC (extreme core-count) has one "Granite Rapids" HCC (high core-count) compute tile, and two I/O tiles that make up the chip's 8-channel DDR5 memory interface. A probable reason for the confusion between LCC, HCC, and XCC terminologies for "Granite Rapids-D" is because the compute tiles are carried over from the main "Granite Rapids-SP" server processors, where they mean different things for the core-counts of mainline servers.



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They really are trying to make it as confusing as possible, aren't they?
 
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They really are trying to make it as confusing as possible, aren't they?
At least these appear to be in the server space, where hopefully the corporate committee making the order will have some clue, or at least it's not their money if they got it wrong.
 
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At least these appear to be in the server space, where hopefully the corporate committee making the order will have some clue, or at least it's not their money if they got it wrong.
The people actually tasked with ordering these still have to understand what they're getting. This is making it unnecessarily hard, especially with how they are defining the terminology.
 
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