Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest At Hot Chips 2025, Intel went into its next-gen 288-core processor. Constructed on Intel 18A process and using 3D packaging technology, this is a major leap over the previous generation Sierra Forest with more cache, faster E-cores, and more memory bandwidth. Please note, we are covering this live, so please excuse typos. The second of Intel’s Forest chips, Clearwater Forest follows Sierra as Intel’s many-core focused design. Rather than relying on Intel’s traditiona...