Hmm, this actually doesn't sounds like nearly as big a deal with Sapphire Rapids as some folks are making it out to be.
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Matt Ramsay -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
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You guys just mentioned some reserves we need to take for Sapphire, and the time lines have been pushed out. So I guess the questions are, one, Pat, can you give us a more specific timing on where things are with Sapphire Rapids, not just early units, but actual volume production? And secondly, this push out, how does this impact the time lines for Emerald and Granite? Do you see those pushing out sort of congruent with the push out here? Or are those time lines going to be held and maybe the platforms be a little bit different? I'm just curious on the road map. Thank you.
Pat Gelsinger -- Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. And giving a bit more detail on Sapphire, we're already ramping a number of SKUs of Sapphire Rapids already. They began ramping last quarter. So we have a number of those ramping.
The particular issue that we highlighted wasn't affecting those SKUs, so those continue to ramp. So we did another tape out, which I'll say, for the larger volume SKUs, and those will be volume shipping in the second half of the year. So you'll see us ramping those and launching those. So we're fully on track for that, and we feel like we're over all of the issues that we've had in bringing that product to marketplace.
So we feel very comfortable with that. We're then working very closely -- emerald goes into the Sapphire platform. So we're working very closely with our customers on the timing there. The product is looking very healthy.
So we're nicely on track. So that will be a '23 product. And then Granite and Sierra Forest is the '24 product. And just to remind everybody, this is a major new platform.
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I'm going to speculate here that this delay does not have much to do with the defects. 500 actually doesn't sound like a lot to me having seen large software projects begin with thousands.
I think people perhaps assumed the leaks about intel not lowering prices before release this fall due to OEMs having too much inventory was about Raptor Lake. I'd bet it was really about Cascade Lake. From what I can tell the channel is chock full of those 14nm processors in bread and butter servers. And that stuff ain't cheap. Probably the same story we're seeing in retail like Walmart and Target, OEMs over-ordered back in 2020 and 2021 and then things changed and they have a glut.
So, delay of 'lower end' Sapphire Rapids SKUs for 'errata' may just be to do something useful while the OEMs clear out old inventory.
On the high end, HPC realm, that's not in a glut from what I can see, and I bet that is what they are starting to supply. It's all Ice Lake-SP and EPYC. Things like the HP SuperDome and Dell PowerEdge XE, or Cisco UCS for VM clusters.
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