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If cores are what agents crave, Intel's new Clearwater Xeon 6+ might just quench their thirst
Chipzilla’s first 2nm-class Xeon is finally here bristling with 288 cores
COMPUTEX 2026 Intel’s Clearwater Forest Xeons were originally designed to power telco networks, SaaS apps, and other high-volume web-scale workloads. But by a stroke of luck, the x86 giant may have also built an agentic AI beast.AI model training, inference, and the GPUs that power them have dominated the discourse for the past few years, but with the rise of agentic harnesses like OpenClaw, CPUs are back in the limelight.In completing a task, these harnesses can make dozens or even hundreds of requests to gather information from the web, run and debug code, query databases, and interact with API services.
All of those requests are run on CPU cores – and Intel’s Xeon 6+ processors happen to have 288 of them.
