The habit of ticket skipping of Intel data center group (DCG) seems to be unchangeable The group has decided to postpone the launch time of the latest sapphire rapids Xeon CPU , and it is estimated that the sales growth will be later than the initial expectation This confirmation message comes from Sandra Rivera, executive vice president and general manager of data center and artificial intelligence business unit of Intel**
A statement provided to computerbase confirmed that Intel is still trying to build more platforms and product validation time, which leads to a later growth than they planned later this year. The following is the full text of the Declaration:
At this point, we need more platform and product validation time, so we see sapphire. You know, this year's growth is later than our initial forecast, but the demand is still very high.
One thing I didn't mention on sapphire is that it is based on our 7 nanometer nodes, so the process is very healthy. In fact, our customer product alder lake has sold 15million units. I think we announced revenue in the first quarter, which makes it one of the fastest growing customer products in the past decade, you know. So the process is healthy and the capacity is very good, but you know we still have some other problems to deal with.
At the same time, Intel also said that despite the delay, the demand for sapphire rapids Xeon CPU is still high. Recently, NVIDIA disclosed at the same global technology conference of Bank of America Securities that it has used Intel's Sapphire rapids CPU to provide power for its next generation DGX H100 artificial intelligence system. The system was originally scheduled to be launched in the third quarter of 2022. However, in view of the increase in the mass production of chips that are now expected to provide power for the system by the end of 2022, we may see limited production in the third quarter and more stable supply in the fourth quarter.