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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
August 28, 20261 min
IBM Unveils 2nm Dual-Architecture Mainframe Processor with Native Arm and On-Chip AI Acceleration
IBM unveiled the industry's first dual-architecture mainframe processor at the annual Hot Chips conference, detailing custom silicon capable of natively executing both IBM Z (s390x) and Arm (Arm64) instruction set architectures on the exact same physical cores. Fabricated on a leading-edge 2-nanometer process node, the upcoming processor is engineered to bridge traditional enterprise transaction processing with the modern, Arm-dominated software ecosystem, particularly containerized AI framewor
August 24, 20261 min