The other day we had the opportunity to estimate the dimensions of the huge Intel Xeon processor. It was the Ice Lake-SP CPU of the Sapphire Rapids platform. Recall that these will be the company’s first 10nm server CPUs, which will also bring support for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5.
And now a photo of such a CPU without a cover has appeared on the Web.
As you can see, the processor consists of four crystals. In fact, Intel began to use a multi-chip layout, like AMD, although the approach, of course, is different.
In addition, on the basis of the available elements, the source was able to approximately calculate the dimensions of the crystal and chiplets. The dimensions of the CPU are approximately 56.6 x 77.6 mm, that is, the area is 4335 mm2… At the same time, one chiplet has an area of about 418.8 mm2… This is more than the area of the GA104 GPU that powers the GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card.
New Intel Xeon CPUs are due out in the spring, but it remains unclear how many cores the top models will have.
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