Huge Intel Xeon 4th generation processor (Sapphire Rapids) in live photos. With LGA4677-X socket, PCI Express 5.0 and DDR5 support

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Such Intel CPUs will be released next year

At the last CES 2021, Intel confirmed the start of production of the 3rd generation Xeon server processors (Ice Lake-SP), and they should go on sale in the current quarter. Meanwhile, the live photo below shows a representation of the Sapphire Rapids family, which should replace Ice Lake-SP.

Intel Xeon 4th generation processor
Intel Xeon 4th generation processor

Huge Intel Xeon 4th generation processor (Sapphire Rapids) in live photos. With LGA4677-X socket, PCI Express 5.0, and DDR5 support

Rumors talked about Sapphire Rapids’ release this year, but this will not be since Ice Lake-SP sales have not even started yet. Meanwhile, despite the same 10nm process technology, Sapphire Rapids will prove to be noticeably better than Ice Lake-SP, as they will become the first Intel server CPUs supporting PCI Express 5.0 bus, as well as an eight-channel DDR5 memory controller. Sapphire Rapids will also get on board HMB memory and Compute Express Link 1.1 bus support.

The Sapphire Rapids-SP engineering sample shown in these pictures runs at 1.3 GHz (which is normal for early samples) and is designed to fit into the new LGA4677-X socket. It’s not hard to see how big the processor is.

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