… Still, it appears as though AMD will be competing with NVIDIA Vera and Xeon 6+ in 2026 rather than Diamond Rapids/ Xeon 7. Diamond Rapids Roadmap Details Intel’s Computex 2026 Xeon roadmap showed the Xeon 7 “Diamond Rapids” platform arriving in 2027 on Intel 18A-P process technology. …
… Intel says Xeon 6+ can deliver 30 percent higher performance at the same core count, 60 percent better performance per watt, and a 38 percent reduction in rack power consumption versus Sierra Forest. Unlike the off-roadmap Xeon 6900E series, the Xeon 6900E+ series has broader industry support. …
… Xeon 6+ will be going into everything from individual servers to whole racks. And will be joining Intel’s existing P-core Xeon, the Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Kechichian is now switching gears to AI, or as Intel terms it: “Intelligence Center.” And this is where Intel and Xeon 6+ come in. …
… For now, Napier is still a taped-out chip and 2027 system roadmap, so the big question is whether the performance and software claims survive contact with real deployments. …
… There is also a new CPU on the roadmap for agentic AI. Setting up the challenge, performance is constrained by memory footprints as models get much larger. This makes sense as we often see AI inference performance and capabilities limited by memory capacity and memory bandwidth. …