According to WCCFTech and CPU-World, which sourced this from a leaker in Twitter, Intel will revive the Xeon E line with several Raptor Lake-E SKUs which will only have P-Cores enabled, up to 8. I would assume that all models should use the Raptor Lake B0 8P + 16E die, which would make them interesing models as there are no pure P-Cores only Raptor Lake SKU (Unless you count the ugly Core i5 13400 B0 version, which also had castrated Cache L2 to match Alder Lake thus killing Raptor Lake IPC improvements).
It may be interesing to see if Intel actually decides to officially enable AVX512 on those, as these don't have the hybrid E-Cores excuse. Whenever they will work in consumer boards or Intel still sticks to the market segmentation since Skylake days of not allowing Xeons E3 to work in non-C/W series Chipsets is also not known.
As a personal note, since Alder Lake launch, I don't recall even a single time that Intel mentioned what was going to be the fate of the Xeon E series. The two major features, ECC RAM support and vPro, were incorporated into the regular Core iX lineup, whereas in previous generations they had no support for these features and you instead required a Xeon branded SKU (In addition to a C or W Chipset. Currently, for LGA 1700 you need the W680 or R680E Chipsets for ECC support, but can get by with a regular Core iX). However, Intel never said if Core iX on W680 were supposed to be the new Xeon E3 Workstation/Server equivalent.
I have no idea if these comes with a new Chipset, but they're supposed to be part of a new platform, Catlow. I have been highly critical that Intel screwed up by not refreshing the W680 Chipset (Which is pretty much a Z690 with ECC and vPro support. As an Intel first, it is a Workstation Chipset that can also overclock), since that is where you most likely need the upgraded 8 PCIe 3.0 -> 4.0 lanes. However, in a stupid move, Intel decided to use the W790 name for a totally different Socket. X799 would have been a more fitting name for it.
It may be interesing to see if Intel actually decides to officially enable AVX512 on those, as these don't have the hybrid E-Cores excuse. Whenever they will work in consumer boards or Intel still sticks to the market segmentation since Skylake days of not allowing Xeons E3 to work in non-C/W series Chipsets is also not known.
As a personal note, since Alder Lake launch, I don't recall even a single time that Intel mentioned what was going to be the fate of the Xeon E series. The two major features, ECC RAM support and vPro, were incorporated into the regular Core iX lineup, whereas in previous generations they had no support for these features and you instead required a Xeon branded SKU (In addition to a C or W Chipset. Currently, for LGA 1700 you need the W680 or R680E Chipsets for ECC support, but can get by with a regular Core iX). However, Intel never said if Core iX on W680 were supposed to be the new Xeon E3 Workstation/Server equivalent.
I have no idea if these comes with a new Chipset, but they're supposed to be part of a new platform, Catlow. I have been highly critical that Intel screwed up by not refreshing the W680 Chipset (Which is pretty much a Z690 with ECC and vPro support. As an Intel first, it is a Workstation Chipset that can also overclock), since that is where you most likely need the upgraded 8 PCIe 3.0 -> 4.0 lanes. However, in a stupid move, Intel decided to use the W790 name for a totally different Socket. X799 would have been a more fitting name for it.
