Overview
- Intel officially introduced the Xeon 600 family for single-socket workstations with up to 86 cores, DDR5-6400 support across eight channels, and 128 PCIe Gen5 lanes with CXL 2.0 capability.
- The lineup is split into 69x, 67x, 65x, and 63x tiers that vary by core counts, memory-channel support, PCIe lane totals, and TDPs on the new FCLGA4710 socket with W890 chipset.
- Intel cites the 696X with up to 9% higher single-thread performance, 61% higher multi-thread performance, and 17% higher AI/ML performance versus the Xeon w9-3595X.
- Asus listed the Pro WS W890E-SAGE SE featuring an ASPEED AST2600 BMC, eight 1DPC DDR5 slots, seven full-length PCIe 5.0 slots, multiple PCIe 5.0 M.2 options, and dual 10GbE.
- Gigabyte’s enterprise unit announced MW94-RP0 for 8-channel/128-lane systems and MW54-HP0 for 4-channel/80-lane builds, Intel targets late-March availability through partners and as boxed CPUs, and BenchLife reports an OEM-only 86-core 698X with the 64-core 696X as the top boxed SKU.