Company Intel is preparing new server processors for the future Xeon Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest ranges. We don’t know much about them yet, but there is talk, for example, that the TDP of the processors will increase to 500 W. Along with that, there is also talk of a new socket LGA 7529. It should be really huge. The first images also appeared on the Internet, where the size of the new socket is clearly visible. Today’s server processors only take up a fraction of the new socket, and against desktop processors with LGA 1700 it would be even more noticeable. They wouldn’t take up even a quarter of the server space. Pictured below is the Intel Xeon Platinum 8352, which is for LGA 4189 (today’s Sapphire Rapids use LGA 4677).
There is talk of processors that could have 86 or even up to 136 P-Core cores. Variants are also mentioned that could only be made up of energy-saving E-Core cores, in which case they talk about not only 334, but also up to 512 cores. There should also be processors equipped with HBM memory. As seen on the motherboard, it has a 12-channel DDR5-6400 memory controller. As for PCIe lanes, 96 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes are mentioned for now.
