Engineering:Clearwater Forest
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Short description: Intel Xeon 6+ E-core server processors, released in 2026
Clearwater Forest is the codename for Intel's Xeon 6+ server processors, launched on June 1, 2026 at Computex. [1] It is the first data center processor built on the Intel 18A process node. Clearwater Forest uses exclusively Darkmont E-cores (efficiency cores), with up to 288 cores per socket, targeting cloud-native, networking, and scale-out workloads. It succeeds Sierra Forest and shares I/O tiles with Granite Rapids.
All models support 2-socket configurations, 12 channels of DDR5-8000, 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes, 64 CXL 2.0 lanes, SGX, TDX, and built-in accelerators (QAT, DSA, DLB, IAA).
List of Clearwater Forest processors
Clearwater Forest-AP
| Processor Family | Model | Cores (threads) |
Clock rate (GHz) | Cache L3 |
Max. Scalability | Memory Support | TDP | Release date | MSRP (USD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base | Turbo | |||||||||
| Xeon 6+ | 6990E+ | 288 (288) | 2.2 | 3.2 | 576 MB | 2S | DDR5-8000 twelve-channel up to 1.5 TB |
450 W | June 1, 2026 | $14995 |
| 6980E+ | 264 (264) | 2.1 | 528 MB | 400 W | $9850 | |||||
| 6970E+ | 192 (192) | 2.3 | 480 MB | $7680 | ||||||
| 6960E+ | 144 (144) | 2.4 | 432 MB | 330 W | $4608 | |||||
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