[sirn]

This is more of a successor to the Xeon 6E (Xeon 6700E / Sierra Forest-SP), which had 144 cores. There was supposed to be a 288-core variant (presumably Xeon 6900E / Sierra Forest-AP), but they never released it to the public. I was looking forward to it since Sierra Forest-AP was supposed to support a 2-socket configuration (from motherboard spec). That's 576 physical cores in a single server!

[ksec]

The upcoming Zen6c will have 256 Core per socket, and dual socket gets you 512 Core. Since the Zen 6c support SMT while E-Core doesn't, the Zen6c would support 1024 vCPU in a single server!

I am looking forward to Zen6C vs Xeon 7-Ecore. Wondering about the cost / pref.

[sirn]

It's still mind-blowing to me to think that a decade earlier this would have been a few racks. Now it just fits within 1U or 2U. What an insane world we live in.

[bayindirh]

Sounds like a UltraSPARC-T1, all over again. A processor stuffed with efficiency cores for cloud loads.

Makes sense.