By: Charlie Burnes (charlie.burnes.delete@this.no-spam.com), May 19, 2022 5:30 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Brendan (btrotter.delete@this.gmail.com) on May 19, 2022 4:42 am wrote:
> 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".
The E-core only (Sierra Forest) Xeon has the same socket as the P-core only (Granite Rapids) Xeon but the article I read says you can’t mix them in a multi-socket motherboard. I don’t know if that is something Intel said or something the article author inferred. If the two different types of Xeons have different instruction sets, they could only share data, not code, if on the same motherboard and special operating system support would be needed. Here is the article:
nextplatform.com/2022/02/17/intel-unfolds-xeon-roadmap-with-more-cores-denser-transistors
> 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".
The E-core only (Sierra Forest) Xeon has the same socket as the P-core only (Granite Rapids) Xeon but the article I read says you can’t mix them in a multi-socket motherboard. I don’t know if that is something Intel said or something the article author inferred. If the two different types of Xeons have different instruction sets, they could only share data, not code, if on the same motherboard and special operating system support would be needed. Here is the article:
nextplatform.com/2022/02/17/intel-unfolds-xeon-roadmap-with-more-cores-denser-transistors
