At Intel’s Innovation occasion, we snapped an image of a curious wafer that the corporate had on show. It was labeled as “Raptor Lake-S,” however upon even a cursory examination, it turned apparent that it’s no bizarre Raptor Lake desktop CPU wafer. As a substitute, it seems to be a 34-core monster workstation CPU.
Taking a look at one of many cube intimately, we are able to rely 34 P-cores, together with some on the outer edges of the CPU. The effectivity or “E-cores” utilized in Alder Lake and Raptor Lake silicon are available in clusters, and would have a distinct look—and are utterly absent right here. Given that each one of this CPU’s cores look the identical, we are able to presume they’re all Golden Cove or Raptor Cove P-cores.
These are large chips, far too huge to slot in a desktop (“-S”) socket, so the “Raptor Lake-S” label on the service is clearly fallacious. The thoughts boggles to suppose how such a label might have gotten onto the service, although. You may suppose that the fallacious wafer was merely caught in a service meant for an precise Raptor Lake-S wafer, nevertheless it particularly says “Raptor Lake-S, 34 core”.
The Raptor Lake-S CPUs that Intel introduced include eight P-cores and sixteen E-cores; Intel hasn’t introduced something like this monster 34-core CPU. 34 cores is not sufficient for Intel’s top-end Xeons, so it is doubtless that this mannequin is meant for the workstation market, or presumably the triumphant return of the high-end desktop (HEDT). Regardless of the case, the sales space employees actually did not know.
