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  • Intel Details 256-Core Xeon Diamond Rapids Architecture with 1.28GB L3 Cache and FP8 AMX

    At the Hot Chips 2026 symposium, Intel unveiled the microarchitectural details for its next-generation data center platform, Xeon 7 (codenamed Diamond Rapids). Scheduled for production release in 2027, the flagship processor features up to 256 performance cores, 1.28GB of Last-Level Cache (LLC), and native FP8 support within its Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). The design marks a shift in Intel's high-performance server strategy, dropping Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) entirely in favor of

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  • Intel Details 256-Core Xeon 7 and 480GB Crescent Island Inference GPU at Hot Chips 2026

    At the Hot Chips 2026 conference, Intel outlined architectural disclosures for three upcoming computing platforms tailored for AI workflows: the Xeon 7 enterprise processor (codename Diamond Rapids), the Crescent Island data center inference GPU, and the Wildcat Lake client processor (Intel Core Series 3). The announcements detail Intel's shift toward modular multi-die packaging, open chiplet interconnect standards, and expanded on-chip memory to meet the computational demands of multi-agent AI

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