Intel announces 6th Gen Xeon brand

'Xeon Scalable' becomes the Xeon 6 series

THIS YEAR at Intel’s ‘Vision’ event in Phoenix, Arizona, the tech company focused on bringing business and technology leaders together to learn about AI advances.

It also announced that the 6th generation Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest processors will be branded ‘Xeon 6’, dispensing with the ‘FifthGen Xeon Scalable’ naming convention. In Intel’s words, the “evolved” Xeon 6 branding will “tell a unified Intel Xeon story,” “facilitate customer navigation”, and “amplify performance signals.”

Intel’s product stack consists of 32 models divided into six lanes for cloud, networking, and so on, plus the Bronze, Gold, Silver, and Platinum tiers. At the time of writing, it’s not clear how the introduction of Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors will clarify the current lineup of CPUs. Intel first unveiled its 288core Xeon CPU in September 2023. In late February 2024, it began previewing it for the AI processing industry.