Hi,

Charlie Burnes (charlie.burnes.delete@this.no-spam.com) on May 19, 2022 3:11 am wrote:
> -.- (blarg.delete@this.mailinator.com) on May 18, 2022 5:23 pm wrote:
> > Intel doesn't appear to be dropping it on their server SKUs
>
> At Intel’s Investor Day in February 2022, Intel said the Xeon line in 2024 will be split into a
> series of products with only performance cores (P cores) and a different series of products with
> only energy efficient cores (E cores). The E cores are derived from the Atom line and take about
> 1/4 the area of the P cores. The first Xeon with E cores is called Sierra Forest. It seems safe to
> assume that Sierra Forest Xeons will not have AVX-512 and Intel’s 1024-bit Advanced Matrix Extensions
> (AMX). Intel described Sierra Forest as “Power/perf optimized to support high-density, ultra-efficient
> compute for the cloud”. A front-end web server doesn’t need AVX-512 and AMX.

I'm curious about whether they plan to support hybrid multi-socket - e.g. a 4-socket motherboard with a mixture of "E-core only chips" and "P-core only chips".

- Brendan