Intel Xeon processor servers servers

Intel Xeon processor servers servers

Intel did not want to lose ground in the server market against AMD, which is why a few days before AMD officially made ​​available in the market for its processors AMD Opteron 12 and 8-core Magny-Cours), Intel responds officially launched its new family of Xeon processors 7500 series 8-core and other models of 6 and 4 cores.

Remember that Intel had recently formalized its family of Xeon 5600 series 6-core manufactured with 32nm technology, now launches its Xeon 7500 series processors Intel 8-core configurations of 4 or more socket and Intel Xeon 6500 series configurations of 2 socket, the new series features models with 8, 6 and 4 cores as needed, but newer models are definitely 8-core, Intel launches the first to market

These processors with 45nm technology, have 8, 12 and 16 threads per processor (2 per core) L3 cache memory configurations of up to 24MB, up to four links (links) QPI (Quick Patch Interconnect) and ranges 130W TDP from 95 to 8-core models, a remarkable figure considering that they are octo-core processors.

Among the companies that offer systems based on the new processors are: Bull, Cisco, Cray, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Inspur, NEC, Oracle, SGI, Supermicro and Quanta.







According to Intel these processors offer an average yield of up to 3 times higher than the previous series Intel Xeon 7400 series (6-core processors based on Dunnington).

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