Enlarge / Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs. (credit: Intel)
Update, 11/4/2022: In a statement, Intel clarified to us that January 10 is the actual launch date for Sapphire Rapids CPUs; our original story implied that the launch date could still come after that. We still don’t know which CPUs will be available and when, but those details will presumably be made clear in January.
Original story: Intel’s next-generation Xeon CPUs based on the new Sapphire Rapids architecture have been delayed more than once, but Intel is finally gearing up to begin selling them to PC companies and end users. According to an announcement-about-an-announcement tweet from Intel, a “data center launch event” on January 10 will include the launch of Sapphire Rapids processors, and the chips have currently “met product release qualifications and the company is starting to ramp-up deployment.”
Also called “Xeon Scalable” or 4th-generation Xeon, Sapphire Rapids CPUs were originally slated for release in late 2021, but by mid-2021, that had become the first quarter of 2022, then “later in the year than originally forecasted,” and now early 2023. These kinds of delays are relatively common for Intel, which also struggled to release its Arc-dedicated desktop GPUs on time and has suffered repeated manufacturing setbacks in the last decade.
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