Intel is apparently reaching for the sky with its next-gen Xeons, and the socket is bigger than an iPhone.
Four days ago, we reported on a leak revealing quite a few key details about Intel’s upcoming ultra-high-end server platform for Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest-family Xeon processors. Well, today, we’ve got what purports to be a pile of leaked screenshots of early sample motherboards for those processors, and it’s a lot to take in.We mean that literally, by the way; the LGA 7529 processors are absolutely gigantic. We’ve already seen pictures of the socket before, but to put things in perspective, Twitter leaker 포시포시 (@harukaze5719 on Twitter) made a composite image that stacks an LGA 1700 CPU on top of one of the just-released Sapphire Rapids Xeons inside the LGA 7529 socket. The desktop chip is not even one-quarter of the size of the enormous Xeon socket.Composite image created by @harukaze5719 on Twitter.
