Microprocessor Report October 2024 Review

Last month, Microprocessor Report focused on the datacenter. Intel’s Granite Rapids Xeon 6 datacenter processors were the headline devices, with improvements in both performance and efficiency from the previous generation. The team also looked under the packaging at Ampere’s new AmpereOne, which hopes to compete against Xeon processors, and Marvell’s new Structera A, a novel near-memory compute device. Both Xeon 6 and Structera products support Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0, demonstrating growing traction for this connectivity standard. Microprocessor Report also covered the development and expected trajectory of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and neural processing units (NPUs), critical technologies for the future development of AI in and out of the datacenter. In October, a remarkable total of over 200 new logic devices were launched; the key specifications are tracked in this report.