Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Had 500 Bugs, Launch Window Moves Further – Michmutters
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Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Had 500 Bugs, Launch Window Moves Further

Intel has delayed the release of its 4th Generation Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” processor for a number of times without disclosing its reasoning. Last week the company admitted that it had to change up Sapphire Rapids because of a security bug, but it appears that the problem is bigger than Intel says. According to Igor’s LabSapphire Rapids had about 500 bugs that required the company 12 steps to fix them.

Intel’s fourth Gen Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids’ processor will not only increase core count to up to 60, but will bring in numerous new features, including Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), CXL 1.1 protocol, DDR5 and HBM2E memory support, PCIe Gen 5 interface, and many more. But the host of additional features increase probability of hardware bugs, so Intel had to fix almost 500 of them, Igor’s Lab reports.

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