Hot Chips The first datacenter silicon to use Intel's two-nanometer-class 18A process tech won't arrive for a while yet, but that's not stopping the struggling x86 giant from making its sales pitch early.

Speaking at Hot Chips this week, Don Soltis, a Xeon Processor Architect and Intel Fellow, touted a nearly 8:1 consolidation benefit for those upgrading from its six-year-old second-gen Xeon Scalable processors to its next-gen Clearwater Forest systems.

Roughly 1,400 of the aging Xeon systems racks can be compressed into just 180 machines, he said.

Of course, that's assuming that your workloads don't require AVX-512 vector acceleration. From what we understand, Clearwater Forest's 288 slimmed down efficiency cores (e-cores) won't support the instructions.

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