Intel’s Super-Massive LGA 7529 Socket Pictured, Ready For Next-Gen Xeon CPUs With Up To 132-Core P-Cores & 512 E-Cores

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Intel's next-generation LGA 7529 socket which will be used by future Xeon CPUs with up to 512 cores has been pictured in insane detail.

Although we have already seen the Intel LGA 7529 socket in close-up shots, the new pictures come from an engineering motherboard that was acquired by Bilibili content creator, @不拉更的Harry & Machine Soul. The motherboard is still an early design that has the ES labeling slapped across all corners, including the socket itself (reads prototype & made by LOTES). The LGA 7529 socket will be part of the Intel Mountain Stream platform which is designed for the next-gen Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest chips.

The leaker of this Intel LGA 7529 socket engineering motherboard anticipates that the upcoming Xeon platform will support P-Core variants with up to 86 and 132 cores, E-Core variants with up to 334 and 512 cores, as well as HBM variants.

The motherboard will be fully compliant with the PCIe Gen 5.0 interface, featuring at least 96 Gen 5 lanes. The memory layout will include support for 12-channel DDR5-6400 memory at the start with Granite Rapids chips. These 12 channels would allow for up to 24 RDIMM slots for an insane DRAM capacity.

The Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI) and bandwidth have also been enhanced for the LGA 7529 socket motherboards. The PCB connection is also expected to be far superior to competitor AMD. The motherboard lacks a southbridge chip section for using hard drive controllers, input and output controllers, and integrated hardware.

It should be noted that the LGA 7529 socket for the new CPU is much larger than the LGA 4189 socket, but both do share the same pin density. The socket is so big that it can literally house at least five Intel 13th Gen Desktop CPUs or six AMD