Intel launches 288-core Xeon, details AI accelerator (opens in new tab)

Intel used Computex 2026 to launch its Xeon 6+ server processor family, code-named Clearwater Forest, bringing its 18A manufacturing process into data centers with chips offering up to 288 E-cores and as much as 576 MB of L3 cache. The processors target dense compute, web-scale and other high-volume workloads, and The Register reported that Intel also described the design as useful for agentic AI workloads that need large numbers of CPU cores. Intel also previewed two follow-on data-center pr...