The Hot Chips conference was the backdrop for Intel’s newest Xeon processor, the all-E-core codenamed Clearwater Forest and the first Xeon built on the company’s next-generation 18A process node. Hot Chips is an annual conference that takes place every year on the campus of Stanford University, the alma mater of numerous Silicon Valley talents, including Pat Gelsinger and Jensen Huang. It is a deep dive in technology led by a slew of electrical engineers talking shop amongst themselves wi...