Intel launches Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest with up to 288 E-cores

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Intel Xeon 6+ brings 288 E-cores to the existing Xeon 6900 platform

First Intel 18A data center CPU launches June 1.



Intel has launched its Xeon 6+ processor series, also known as Clearwater Forest. This is Intel’s first data center CPU built with compute tiles on Intel 18A, and the new family focuses on high core density rather than P-core performance.

The top SKU is the Xeon 6990E+, a 288-core processor based on next-gen Darkmont E-cores. Intel lists two power versions of this model, one at 450W and another at 330W. Both keep the same 288-core count, 576MB of L3 cache, 12-channel DDR5-8000 support and 96 PCIe Gen5 lanes.

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