While Intel previously disclosed that Sierra Forest processors will go up to 144 cores, the company revealed on Tuesday that one will max out at a whopping 288 cores. The successor to Emerald ...

The semiconductor giant discloses that its 288-core Xeon 6900E server ... s new Xeon 6 processors with efficient cores (E-cores), code-named Sierra Forest. In an Intel briefing last week that ...

The E-core-powered Sierra Forest models with up to 144 cores are launching today, but 288-core models will follow next year. Intel's efficiency-focused 288-core chips will face off with AMD's ...

which won't launch its monster 288-core Sierra Forest Xeons until early next year. Then again, AMD's approach to core-heavy CPUs is quite different. As we mentioned earlier, Intel's Sierra Xeons ...