China’s Montage Technology Rebadges Intel’s Xeon 6E “Sierra Forest” CPU Lineup, Sells Them As C6E Series

China's server provider, Montage Technology, has rebadged Intel's Xeon 6E "Sierra Forest" CPU family & selling them under the C6E series.

If you remember Montage Technology from one of our previous posts, well then it was the same company that rebranded Intel's previous 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" and sold them as their own. Now, the company has rebadged Intel's Xeon 6E "Sierra Forest" lineup & selling them under its C6E lineup with the tagline "Pioneering Energy-Efficient Computing, Powering Green Growth".

The CPUs fall under the 6th Gen Jintide E-Core CPUs and the previous generations have been the same affair, a rebadge of Intel's past Xeon releases.

Montage Tech is listing at least five SKUs which include the C6710E with 64 cores, C6740E with 96 cores, C6746E with 112 cores, C6756E with 128 cores, & the top C6766E with 144 cores. The lineup is short of two chips, the Xeon 6780E and the Xeon 6731E, both of which feature 144/96 cores but with different clocks and TDP ratings.

All of these chips feature the same specifications as the Intel Xeon 6E "Sierra Forest" E-Core CPU lineup such as support for DDR5 RDIMMs with 8 memory channels and up to 6400 MT/s speeds. These chips carry 88 PCIe Gen 5.0 lanes and are CXL 2.0 compliant. All five chips will come with support on the LGA 4710 socket and measure 82x62mm (package size). Just like the Intel Xeon 6E family, the 6th Gen Jintide E-Core CPUs will support 2S platforms (dual-socket) and can house up to 1 TB of memory capacities.

While we failed to reach out to Montage Technology previously about whether this was an official partner deal with Intel or not, that very much seems to be the case here since you can't resell an official product from a different company as your own without the parent company producing the chips not knowing what's going on. Montage could have simply sold them without rebadging them but it looks like they want to slap their label and make it sound so that the chips are their own.