In early February, Intel finally updated its HEDT sector with the latest “Granite Rapids-WS” Xeon 600 Series processors for workstations. The company has now published a detailed table of turbo frequencies that provides specifics on each core’s boost frequency in workloads like SSE, AVX2, AVX-512, and AMX, showing how much these workloads allow the CPU … Read more
Intel has quietly deprecated its Software Defined Silicon initiative (SDSi), known as “Intel On Demand,” according to a report from Phoronix. The company has archived the official GitHub repository for SDSi for Xeon, an effort intended to enable optional features on Intel’s server processors that could be unlocked for an extra fee. Intel had hoped … Read more
Intel looking to take on AMD Threadripper Pro with up to 86 cores, fast MRDIMM memory, and a unified Xeon 600 stack Intel has launched its Xeon 600 Series processors for workstations, bringing the Granite Rapids architecture to desktops designed for heavy compute workloads such as simulation, rendering, and AI development. The new chip family … Read more