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2011-04-05 19:34:23


Intel on Tuesday announced the Xeon E7 series of chips with 10 cores, which the company said could help cut power and maintenance costs in data centers while adding more processing power.

A four-socket server with an E7 chip will be able to support up to 2TB of memory, which is double that of the older Xeon 7500 processors. The company is offering 10 new 10-core chips, including the E7-8870, E7-4870 and E7-2870, which operate at speeds of up to 2.4GHz and consume up to 130 watts. A 4U server will be able to accommodate up to 64 memory slots.

Intel also announced the Xeon E3-1200 family of chips for entry-level servers, which the company calls microservers. The processors are based on the new Sandy Bridge microarchitecture and are designed for business applications such as storage and backup applications.


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2011-04-05 19:41:27


Intel said that the new Xeons established 16 new world records in performance, topping the IBM POWER architecture, SPARC - and even its own Itanium, once pitched as the highest-performing architecture in the world. Intel said that its Xeons, of which a new family is released every year, will offer 40 to 50 percent performance improvements on average per year. Itanium, on a two-year cycle, will double its performance every two years, so that the upcoming "Poulson" chip will offer twice the performance of the "Tukwila" architecture, said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group.

The new E7 processors will actually make up just a small percentage of Intel's overall server shipments, with most server vendors preferring Intel's mainstream Xeon chips. Skaugen estimated the multiprocessor server market at about a tenth the size of the dual-socket market, but with about 20 percent of the revenue. However, Skaugen also noted that IT managers could replace 18 dual-core servers with a single high-end E7-based server.

The Xeon processor E7-8800/4800/2800 families range in price from $774 to $4,616 in quantities of 1,000, Intel said The Xeon processor E3-1200 family ranges in price from $189 to $612 in quantities of 1,000.


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2011-04-14 21:00:57


Intel IT's Datacenter Center strategy is on track to deliver $650M of value by 2014 -- a large driver is adopting the latest generation Intel® Xeon® processors, including the new E7 series. The results of our E7 testing show up to a 35% performance improvement over prior generation Intel Xeon 7500.

And, we also see up to a 7.81x improvement over the 4S dual-core Xeon 7100 servers (~4 yrs old and targeted to be refreshed). We continue to use 4-socket Intel Xeon-based servers for specialized design, ERP, and mission critical workloads that demand more CPUs, memory, drives and multiple network connections.

Learn more IT Best Practices from Intel IT at http://www.intel.com/IT.



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