Intel's stock was the S&P 500's top performer this week after the chipmaker named a new CEO amid speculation about the future ...

When Intel names a socket LGA XXXX, such as the LGA 1700 that Raptor Lake requires, the number refers to the number of pins.

However, these new P-core Xeons aren't trying to match AMD on core count ... The one exception to this is Intel's four and eight-socket compatible chips, which have no competition in the x86 space and ...

The first quarter is also when Intel plans to launch the Xeon 6700P series, which supports servers with one, two, four or eight sockets. The series features up to 86 P-cores, a maximum thermal ...

Certainly in the segments that we compete in, it's really, really niche,' one Intel partner says of four- and eight-socket servers, which are the only server types being supported with the new ...

The new Xeons are P-core based but offer slightly less ... the extra memory capacity that four socket or eight socket provides, he added. Intel is stopping at eight sockets, but Singhal said ...

In the Granite Rapids chiplet and socket designs, you see this interplay to ... 40 percent of peak CPU is the typical load, and so Intel has optimized the Granite Rapids P-core designs to be more ...

You can provision the Xeon 6700/6500 parts in 4-socket and eight-socket configurations ... you a machine with 688 Redwood Cove P-cores, if you find that Intel's CPUs are the fastest processors ...