# Hot Chips 2026: Intel's Diamond Rapids

DevFeed: [Hot Chips 2026: Intel's Diamond Rapids](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hot-chips-2026-intel-s-diamond-rapids-13994.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-intels-diamond-rapids>)

Author: George Cozma

Published: 2026-08-25T06:20:03Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chips and Cheese](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chips-and-cheese.md>)

Topics: [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cpu.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intel.md>), [Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cache.md>), [IO](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/io.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/x86.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intel.md>), [io](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/io.md>), [processor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processor.md>), [x86](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/x86.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines Intel's Diamond Rapids server CPU, including its 3D-stacked L3 cache, die and packaging design, revised 256-core specification, 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth, 128 PCIe Gen 6 lanes, and two new x86 ISA extensions. It compares these characteristics with AMD's Venice processor.

## Source excerpt

Hello you fine Internet folks,