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TL;DR Diamond Rapids tops out at 256 P-cores, double the 128 in today’s Xeon 6980P. Intel detailed it at Hot Chips on 24 August; it ships in the second half of 2027. Hyperthreading is gone, so 256 cores means 256 threads — the same count the 128-core 6980P already delivers. SMT returns in the next…
Read MoreTL;DR Agents do need more CPU than chatbots did, but no published study shows the right number is one CPU per GPU. In real traffic, the CPU work of running code and searching databases took as long as the model itself in over a quarter of requests. The chips being sold for this are ordinary…
Read MoreGraphics card prices in Korea may climb as much as 30% from August. On August 1, Xbox consoles went up $100 to $150 worldwide and the 2TB Series X was discontinued outright, with Microsoft citing console storage and memory costs up more than 2.5x. Intuition says an AI buildout is a GPU buildout, so accelerators…
Read MoreAMD spent two days in San Francisco arguing that the server CPU has stopped being a supporting part. The number carrying that argument: a data center CPU market worth roughly $220 billion by 2030, inside a total compute opportunity near $2 trillion. Worth being precise about what that figure is. AMD’s slide states a CAGR…
Read MoreOn June 30, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output during its introductory window — less than half the $5 and $25 the flagship Opus 4.8 charges, while scoring 63.2 to the flagship’s 69.2 on the SWE-bench Pro coding benchmark. Roughly ninety percent of the capability…
Read MoreFor two years the data-center story was all about GPUs and the memory feeding them. CPUs were the boring line item: you bought one or two per node to babysit the accelerators and moved on. That assumption broke this spring. On Intel’s Q1 2026 earnings call, Intel’s CFO said the ratio of CPUs to GPUs…
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