In the PC central processing unit (CPU) market, (NASDAQ: INTC) has been able to stage an impressive comeback thanks to its embrace of a hybrid core architecture. Starting with Alder Lake and continuing with Raptor Lake, Intel mixed powerful P-cores with power-sipping E-cores. The P-cores provide the single-threaded horsepower that's critical for applications like gaming, while the mass of E-cores boosts multithreaded performance considerably.

In the server CPU market, Intel is taking a different route. Instead of including both types of cores in a single chip, Intel will split its Xeon lineup for the first time next year. This move likely would have happened sooner, but Intel battled chronic delays in getting its current generation of Sapphire Rapids server CPUs to market. Sapphire Rapids finally launched at the beginning of this year.

While Intel will launch Emerald Rapids, the successor to Sapphire Rapids, by the end of 2023, those new chips are unlikely to move the needle. Instead, it will be the duo of Xeon chip families Intel rolls out next year that marks the beginning of Intel's comeback in the server CPU market.

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