(Image credit: Getty Images / Cheng Chia Huang) Intel launched its Xeon 6+ "Clearwater Forest" processors at Computex 2026 in Taipei, and on Monday, two of the individuals responsible for the product sat down with the press to answer questions. Kira Boyko, Product Line Director for E-Core Xeon Products in Intel's Data Center Group, led the session, which was joined partway through by Tim Wilson, Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Data Center Silicon Engineering group. Across roughly half an hour, the two addressed why Intel stripped hyper-threading out of its E-core server parts and the technical case for bringing it back, the agentic AI demand surge that has left expensive GPU fleets idling while they wait on CPUs, the deliberate decision to ship Clearwater Forest with only AVX2, and 18A supply so tight that allocating chips between customers is "daily, in some cases." Diamond Rapids, Intel's next P-core Xeon, drew repeated questions, but Intel deferred any detail, with Evangelista pointing…