The delay in the market launch of Intel’s Sapphire Rapids family of server processors is likely to delay the release of Sapphire Rapids-X processors for workstations, but on the Intel website you can already find a mention of the W790 system logic set, which can become their main companion. The developer emphasizes that the Intel W790 is a chipset for workstations.
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Nomenclature Intel W790 belongs to the list of system logic sets of the 600th family, in the table on the company’s website it is adjacent to the Intel W680 chipset and even has the serial version marking – SRL02, which makes it similar to its predecessor (SRL00). It’s not a fact that the Intel W790 will have time to debut before the end of this year, but the appearance of mentions of it on the developer’s website at least inspires confidence that Cascade Lake-X processors will still have successors.
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Last month, references to the ASUS Pro WS W790E-SAGE motherboard appeared in the list of changes in the HWiNFO information and diagnostic utility. Among the expected features of such a motherboard, there is support for DDR5 and PCI Express 5.0, and the TDP level of the Sapphire Rapids-X family processors can reach 350 W for the version with 56 cores and 112 threads.
