Intel's Make-Or-Break 18A Process Node Debuts For Data Center With 288-Core Xeon 6+ CPU

Intel's Make-Or-Break 18A Process Node Debuts For Data Center With 288-Core Xeon 6+ CPU

Intel has formally unveiled its Xeon 6+ "Clearwater Forest" data-center processor with up to 288 cores, built on the company's new Intel 18A process and using Foveros Direct packaging. The chip targets telecom, cloud, and edge-AI workloads with massive parallelism, large caches, and high-bandwidth D...

Intel’s 288-Core Xeon 6 Behemoth: The 18A Chip That Could Decide the Company’s Future in the Data Center Wars

Intel Corporation has placed its biggest bet in years on a single process node—and the stakes could not be higher. At Computex 2025, the company unveiled the Xeon 6 900-series processor, a 288-core multi-chip colossus built on its Intel 18A manufacturing process. The chip represents Intel’s first deployment of 18A in a commercial data center product, and it arrives at a moment when the company’s credibility as both a chipmaker and a foundry is u…

Intel unveils cutting-edge Xeon 6+ CPUs with 288 cores, targeting AI-ready networks

Intel Corp. today unveiled its most advanced central processing unit so far, targeting artificial intelligence networks and other data center applications. Announced at the MWC telecom conference in Barcelona, the Xeon 6+ CPU, codenamed “Clearwater Forest,” is targeted at networks and cloud infrastructures and is based on a complex multi-chiplet design that combines 12 compute […] The post Intel unveils cutting-edge Xeon 6+ CPUs with 288 cores, …

Intel 18A Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest CPUs Debut With Up To 288 Cores At MWC 2026

AMD isn't the only company launching non-mobile processors at Mobile World Congress 2026. Intel's got some hardware to show off today, too, in the form of the Xeon 6+ processors that we know better by their codename "Clearwater Forest". These chips are the successors to Sierra Forest, the all E-core Xeons that Intel launched back in 2024.