Intel Launches New Xeon Chips with Up to Ten Cores

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday officially released a new family of Intel Xeon processors designed for enterprise applications. The new chips feature up to ten cores, up to 30MB of cache as well as advanced security and reliability features. The Xeon E7-series chips are produced using 32nm process technology and are based on Westmere micro-architecture.

"Intel has been changing the economics for mission-critical computing server deployments for more than a decade, and today we are raising the bar yet again. The new Intel Xeon processor E7 family delivers record breaking performance with powerful new security, reliability and energy efficiency enhancements. The industry momentum we're seeing for this new server processor architecture is unparalleled in Intel's history," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's data center group.

The new Intel Xeon E7 processor family contains 18 new processors with six, eight or ten cores for two-, four- and eight-socket servers, and is expandable to servers with 256 sockets. Thanks to micro-architectural enhancements, clock-speed improve as well as higher amount of cores, the new chips deliver up to 40% greater performance than the Intel Xeon 7500-series processor. Concurrently, to help address rising energy costs, the new Xeon chips include Intel Intelligent Power technology that dynamically reduces idle power consumption of the chip based on the workload while also delivering advanced processor power-management capabilities.

Intel Xeon E7 chips feature Advanced Encryption Standard New Instruction (AES-NI) allows systems to quickly encrypt and decrypt data running over a range of applications and transactions, while Intel Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) creates a secure platform at boot-up by protecting applications from malicious threats. Together, these security features can ensure that virtualized environments are more reliably secure when they are launched, migrated or at rest, as well as experience better performance and functionality.

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