Intel launches Xeon 6+ CPU, pitches it for Agentic AI boom

Intel has officially launched the Xeon 6+ CPU product line for data centers, Edge compute, and telecoms.

At the Computex event in Taiwan, attended by DCD, the company provided further details about the chip family, previously codenamed Clearwater Forest. The Xeon 6+ is the first data center CPU to be built on Intel 18A, its foundry business's most advanced process node.

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The 6+ CPU features up to 288 E-cores, supports 1-2 sockets, and has a max TDP per CPU of 450W. The chip line has 12 memory channels, with 8000MT/s DDR5, as well as 96 lanes of PCIe/64 lanes of CXL. It has 576MB of last level cache.

Intel Xeon 6990E+ delivers 1.3x higher average performance per thread and 1.3x higher average performance/thread/watt vs AMD's Epyc 9965, the company claimed.