Intel's next-gen Xeons to pack 192 cores, abandon SMT
Intel announced its upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeon processors will feature 192 cores but will abandon simultaneous multithreading (SMT). The company plans to reintroduce SMT in the subsequent Coral Rapids generation while adopting a chiplet-based design similar to AMD's Epyc processors.
Why it matters
This shift in architecture reflects the intense competition in the server CPU market and the ongoing evolution of high-performance computing design.
Tobias Mann Tobias Mann Systems editor Published mon 1 Jun 2026 // 04:00 UTC COMPUTEX 2026 Intel’s upcoming Diamond Rapids Xeon will boost core counts to 192, a 50 percent increase over last generation, the x86 giant revealed at Computex in Taipei this week.
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