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As above Intel has a released some lower core count SKUs which are not socket compatible with the Xeon 6900P series. Some parts, especially the lower core count SKUs seem to be quite price competitive - even in HEDT territory. With the inclusion of AMX, AVX-512 and 8 memory channels per socket these processors may prove useful for AI inference and training.
For the single socket socket SKUs, some UPI links have been repurposed as board PCIe 5.0 lanes allowing for a total of 133 PCIe 5.0 lanes.
All on-board accelerators have been enabled including QAT and AMX. All P-core SKUs are AVX-512 enabled.
Now to find some affordable E-ATX workstation boards…
AMX is useful with LLMs like Deepseek