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Explore server CPUs through coverage of Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC roadmaps, including the planned return of Hyper-Threading, comparisons between modern and legacy platforms, and practical value for homelabs, storage, virtualization, and development servers. The tag also follows how agentic AI is increasing demand for general-purpose data-center compute, contributing to supply pressure in 2026. Additional coverage examines Qualcomm’s Dragonfly server CPU strategy, its Azure relationship, AI accelerators, and the wider competition among CPU makers, custom ASIC designers, hyperscalers, and foundries as infrastructure becomes more distributed, power-conscious, and workload-specific.
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    Intel Xeon 7 Diamond Rapids Hits 256 Cores, 1.28GB Cache

    Intel has disclosed that its 2027 Xeon 7 “Diamond Rapids” platform will scale to 256 performance cores and 1.28 GB of last-level cache in one socket, using 16 small CPU chiplets, four cache-bearing base tiles and two central Fabric Hub tiles. The Hot Chips 2026 presentation answers the...
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    Intel Xeon 8 Coral Rapids Brings Hyper-Threading Back in 2028

    Intel is putting simultaneous multithreading back on its long-term server roadmap, a consequential reversal that signals the company no longer sees ever-higher physical core counts as a complete substitute for more flexible per-core throughput. The feature, marketed as Hyper-Threading, is set to...
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    AMD EPYC 7532 Beats Xeon E5 for Modern Server Builds

    The “12 Best CPUs for Servers (August 2026)” label is premature and, more importantly, misleading. A guide published on July 23, 2026 cannot reliably represent an August buying list, and a closer look at its recommendations reveals a deeper issue: most of the highlighted processors are...
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    Intel and AMD CPU Shortage in 2026 as Agentic AI Needs More Server Compute

    Intel and AMD are being pulled into a new supply squeeze in mid-2026 as agentic AI workloads increase demand for server CPUs, turning what looked like a GPU-and-memory boom into a broader data-center compute shortage. The important shift is not that CPUs have suddenly become fashionable again...
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    Qualcomm’s AI Data Center Push: Dragonfly, Azure HBC, and Modular $3.9B

    Qualcomm used its June 24, 2026 Investor Day in New York to announce a full data center push built around Dragonfly server CPUs, AI accelerators, High Bandwidth Compute, a Meta server deal, a Microsoft Azure architecture agreement, and a $3.9 billion plan to acquire Modular. The message was not...
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    Agentic AI Threatens NVIDIA: The 2026 CPU, ASIC, and Foundry Systems War

    NVIDIA’s AI computing dominance is being challenged in 2026 by a converging field of server CPU makers, custom ASIC builders, hyperscale cloud operators, and foundry challengers, as agentic AI shifts more work from pure GPU acceleration toward orchestration-heavy, power-sensitive...