Intel Showcased Next-Generation Xeon Processor ClearwaterForest for the First Time

TapTechNews September 26th news, according to foreign media Tom'sHardware report, Intel for the first time showed the physical appearance of the next-generation Xeon energy-efficient core processor ClearwaterForest at the EnterpriseTechTour event held in Portland, Oregon, USA last week.

ClearwaterForest is the successor of the existing Xeon 6 energy-efficient core processor SierraForest and is expected to be launched in 2025. This CPU will, together with PantherLake in the client field, become the first batch of products in Intel based on the Intel18A node.

Judging from the pictures shown by foreign media, the core part of the ClearwaterForest processor contains 5 blocks, and the left and right blocks correspond to the Intel 7 process I/O module, which is basically the same as the I/O module on the existing Xeon 6 processor.

Referring to TapTechNews' previous report, each middle block corresponds to a complex composed of 4 Intel18A process computing modules and 1 Intel3 series process base module, in which the base module contains the main SRAM cache, voltage regulator circuit and internal interconnection network.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in an interview with overseas technology media TechTechPotato in February this year that I have bet the entire company on the 18A process; and on the 4th of this month, Intel also announced that the focus of its engineering resources shifted from Intel20A to Intel18A. It can be said that Intel18A has become a key node that determines the future direction of this chip giant.