LGA 7529 explained

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]

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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mujtaba . Hassan . January 31, 2023 . Intel's Massive LGA 7529 Socket For Sierra Forest "Birch Stream" CPUs Pictured . Wccftech . en-US . February 12, 2023.
2. Web site: Massive LGA-7529 socket for future Intel Xeon "Sierra Forest" CPUs teased . VideoCardz . en-US . January 31, 2023 . February 12, 2023.
3. Web site: Kostovic . Aleksandar . July 9, 2021 . Intel Birch Stream-AP Platform for Sierra Forest CPUs Listed With LGA 7529 Socket . Tom's Hardware . en-US . February 12, 2023.
4. Web site: Smith . Eric . 2023-10-27 . Massive Intel LGA7529 Socket for Sierra Forest at OCP Summit 2023 . 2024-02-02 . ServeTheHome . en-US.