Last year, Intel canceled the 8-channel variant of its upcoming Diamond Rapids server lineup, choosing instead to focus on only the 16-channel SKUs. The “Xeon 7” family was originally supposed to launch later this year, but new information from leaker Jaykihn suggests it’s been pushed back to 2027. That means Diamond Rapids won’t be able to compete directly with AMD’s EPYC Venice CPUs that’re (still) slated for 2026.
The leak also says, at launch, the Diamond Rapids family will top out at 256 cores…

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