Intel Xeon 7 ‘Diamond Rapids’ CPUs officially launching in 2027 on Intel 18A-P — next-gen P-core Xeon features PCIe 6.0, 50% higher core counts, and twice the memory bandwidth
… We can do similar math with core counts, looking at the top-end 6980P from Granite Rapid-AP at 128 cores. A 50% increase in core count brings us to 192 cores. Diamond Rapids has been rumored to climb up to 256 cores, with a 512-core dense version planned later. …
