Today, because of the ServeTheDwelling discussion board member “111alan”, we have now the primary photos of the alleged Intel Sapphire Rapids Xeon processor. Pictured is what seems to be a dual-die design much like Cascade Lake-SP design with 56 cores and 112 threads that makes use of two dies. The Sapphire Rapids is a 10 nm SuperFin design that allegedly comes even within the dual-die configuration. To host this processor, the motherboard wants an LGA4677 socket with 4677 pins current. The new LGA socket, together with the brand new 10 nm Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors are set for supply in 2021 when Intel is anticipated to launch its new processors and their respective platforms.
The processor pictured is clearly a dual-die design, which means that Intel used a few of its Multi-Chip Package (MCM) expertise that makes use of EMIB to interconnect the silicon utilizing an lively interposer. As a reminder, the brand new 10 nm Sapphire Rapids platform is meant to deliver many new options like a DDR5 reminiscence controller paired with Intel’s Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA); a model new PCIe 5.zero normal protocol with a 32 GT/s information switch fee, and a CXL 1.1 help for next-generation accelerators. The precise configuration of this processor is unknown, nonetheless, it’s an engineering pattern with a clock frequency of a modest 2.zero GHz.
