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Title: MiTAC/Tyan Shows Off Motherboard and Servers for Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs

Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:00:00 EDT
Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21448/mitac-sh...

Later this year Intel is set to introduce its Xeon 6-branded processors,
codenamed Granite Rapids (6x00P) and Sierra Forest (6x00E). And with it will
come a new slew of server motherboards and pre-built server platforms to go
with it. On the latter note, this will be the first generation where Intel
won't be offering any pre-builts of its own, after selling that business off
to MiTAC last year.

To that end, MiTAC and its subsidiary Tyan were at this year's event to
demonstrate what they've been up to since acquiring Intel's server business
unit, as well as to show off the server platforms they're developing for the
Xeon 6 family. Altogether, the companies had two server platforms on display -
 a compact 2S system, and a larger 2S system with significant expansion
capabilities - as well as a pair of single-socket designs from Tyan.

The most basic platform that MiTAC had to show is their TX86-E7148 (Katmai
Pass), a half-width 1U system that's the successor to Intel's D50DNP
platform. Katmai Pass has two CPU sockets, supports up to 2 TB of DDR5-6400
RDIMMs over 16 slots (8 per CPU), and has two low-profile PCIe 5.0 x16 slots.
Like its predecessor, this platform is aimed at mainstream servers that do
not need a lot of storage or room to house bulky add-in cards like AI
accelerators.

The company's other platform is TX77A-E7142 (Deer Creek Pass), a considerably
more serious offering that replaces Intel's M50FCP platform. This board can
house up to 4 TB of DDR5-6400 RDIMMs over 32 slots (16 per CPU with 2DPC),
four PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, one PCIe 5.0 x8 slot, two OCP 3.0 slots, and 24 hot-
swap U.2 bays. Deer Creek Pass can be used both for general-purpose
workloads, high-performance storage, as well as workloads that require GPUs
or other special-purpose accelerators.

Meanwhile Tyan had the single-socket Thunder CX GC73A-B5660 on display. That
system supports up to 2 TB of DDR5-6400 memory over 16 RDIMMs and offers two
PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, one PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 slot, two OCP 3.0 slots, and 12 hot-
swappable U.2 drive bays.

Finally, Tyan's Thunder HX S5662 is an HPC server board specifically designed
to house multiple AI accelerators and other large PCIe cards. This board
supports one Xeon 6 6700 processor, up to 1 TB of memory over eight DDR5-6400
RDIMMs, and has five tradiitonal PCIe 5.0 x16 slots as well as two PCIe 5.0
x2 M.2 slots for storage.

MiTAC is expected to start shipments of these new Xeon 6 motherboards in the
coming months, as Intel rolls out its next-generation datacenter CPUs.
Pricing of these platforms is unknown for now, but expect it to be comparable
to existing servers.

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