Intel Launches 288-Core Clearwater Forest Xeon 6 on 18A Process

Originally published on The Register — June 1, 2026

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Intel unveiled its Clearwater Forest Xeon 6+ processors at Computex 2026, featuring 288 Darkmont E-cores on the 18A (2nm-class) process. The chip uses 12 compute tiles stacked on base dies, offers SKUs from 144 to 288 cores at 330-450W TDP, and is positioned as ideal for agentic AI workloads that don’t need wide vector registers. It packs 200 more cores per socket than Nvidia’s Vera CPUs.

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