> Clearwater Forest which is Skymont on 18A for Server. Clearwater Forest will be using a further generation improved E-core, Darkmont, which will also sit on

> Clearwater Forest which is Skymont on 18A for Server. Clearwater Forest will be using a further generation improved E-core, Darkmont, which will also sit on top of large local caches using Foveros Direct 3D (like AMD's X3D design). [1] Likely Darkmont will be a server tweaked version of Skymont, but there is no public info yet available. This is possibly the critical product which will determine if Intel will be viable from a manufacturing and design perspective...If it gets released in the next 6-9 months with good thermals, IPC, and clock speeds, Intel will have a major winner on its hands. If not.... [1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/central-libraries/us/en/documents/2024-02/intel-tech-clearwater-wp.pdf https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/central-libraries/us/e...