LGA 7529 is an upcoming zero insertion force flip-chip land grid array (LGA) socket designed by Intel that will be used by the future Sierra Forest, a line of E-Core Xeon processors designed for heavily multithreaded cloud workloads, and Granite Rapids, the all P-Core mainstream Xeon microprocessors. The socket is also expected to support the mainstream successor to Granite Rapids, Diamond Rapids.[1] The first pictures of the Intel 'Birch Stream' platform, a two socket engineering motherboard featuring dual LGA 7529 sockets, was posted on January 31, 2023, by Yuuki_Ans.[2]

LGA 7529
TypeLGA-ZIF
Chip form factorsFlip-chip
Contacts7529
Processors
PredecessorLGA 4677
Memory supportDDR5

This article is part of the CPU socket series

The Birch Stream platform is expected to support 12 channels of DDR5 memory per socket, for a total of 24 channels of DDR5 memory on a dual socket system.[3][4]

At OCP Summit 2023, Intel announced that Sierra Forest would be targeting a 1H 2024 launch.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Mujtaba, Hassan (January 31, 2023). "Intel's Massive LGA 7529 Socket For Sierra Forest "Birch Stream" CPUs Pictured". Wccftech. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  2. ^ "Massive LGA-7529 socket for future Intel Xeon "Sierra Forest" CPUs teased". VideoCardz. January 31, 2023. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  3. ^ Kostovic, Aleksandar (July 9, 2021). "Intel Birch Stream-AP Platform for Sierra Forest CPUs Listed With LGA 7529 Socket". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Smith, Eric (October 27, 2023). "Massive Intel LGA7529 Socket for Sierra Forest at OCP Summit 2023". ServeTheHome. Retrieved February 2, 2024.