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PUBLISHEDFebruary 4, 2021
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First photos of 10nm Intel Xeon 'Sapphire Rapids' processor surface
First photos of an Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids engineering sample have surfaced online, showing off the 10nm chip with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support.
The first photos of Intel's 4th-generation 10nm Xeon processor (codenamed Sapphire Rapids) for the LGA4677-X socket have leaked online. Images of the chip, carrying the QVV5 Q-spec, were shared by well-known hardware insider YuuKi-AnS.
This engineering sample runs at a 1300 MHz base clock, which is typical for early silicon. The insider claims the CPU features four compute tiles and four HBM memory stacks of unconfirmed capacity.
These Sapphire Rapids-SP processors are part of the upcoming Eagle Stream platform. The lineup is built on Intel's third and most mature 10nm node, codenamed 10nm Enhanced SuperFin.
Reports suggest Sapphire Rapids chips will feature on-package HBM memory and support Compute Express Link (CXL) 1.1. More importantly, these LGA4677-X processors will be Intel's first server CPUs to support the new PCI Express 5.0 standard.
Sapphire Rapids will also introduce DDR5 support to Intel's server lineup, with rumors pointing to an 8-channel DDR5 memory controller for the next-generation Xeon chips.
Source: VideoCardZ
