Intel would be preparing a "Mega APU" Xeon with 72 cores and Intel Xe graphics with HBM2E memory

According to the latest industry rumors, Intel, with its next family of Sapphire Rapids server processors, is preparing to launch a "Mega APU".

This APU will reportedly be part of the Intel Xeon family, of which it is indicated that there is already a design with 56 cores @ 10nm, although it is indicated that the company is working to offer a top-of-the-range design with a configuration of 72 cores to have more opportunities to face the AMD EPYC GENOA (Zen4 @ 5nm) processors, which would reach configurations of up to 96 cores.

The most interesting of all is that these 72/56 cores will be accompanied in the same package with powerful Intel Xe graphics that will have their own ultra-fast dedicated memory, and for this Intel would have chosen the HBM2E memory, the most advanced that there is currently in the market.

The strengths of Intel Sapphire Rapids processors go through the 10nm Enhanced SuperFin manufacturing process that, together with its new architecture named Golden Cove, promises a 50% improvement in IPC compared to Skylake; the use of the Compute Express Link 1.1 interface, its compatibility with the PCI-Express 5.0 interface, and access to an Octa-Channel  DDR5 RAM configuration.