Xeon
At Intel's Vision 2024 event, which is being held in Phoenix, AZ, has seen several key announcements. On the datacenter CPU front, Intel is using the show to unveil their newest branding for their venerable family of Xeon processors. Beginning with this year's sixth generation of processors, Intel is "evolving" the Xeon brand by retiring the "Xeon Scalable" branding in favor of Intel's new and simplified "Xeon 6" brand. The Xeon 6 family is set to launch later this year with two primary variants: an all-performance (P) core chip codenamed Granite Rapids, and an all-efficiency (E) core chip codenamed Sierra Forest. Both of these chips will be sold under the Xeon 6 brand and sit on top of the same motherboard platform, with the Xeon...
Intel Leaks Model Numbers of Entry Level Xeon E-2000 CPUs
Intel has published model numbers of its upcoming Xeon E processors based on the Coffee Lake-S core. The new chips will be used in entry-level servers and workstations and...
5 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2018
Intel Shows Xeon Scalable Gold 6138P with Integrated FPGA, Shipping to Vendors
Part of the story behind the Xeon Scalable platform, built upon server-level Skylake processing cores with AVX-512 and a new mesh topology, was that the CPU was designed to...
32 by Ian Cutress on 5/17/2018
MSI Unveils New Vortex Desktop Workstation and Updated Mobile Workstations
MSI has announced updates to its mobile workstation lineup infusing them with Coffee Lake CPUs and Quadro based graphics cards as well as introducing a new pint-sized (Liter size...
5 by Joe Shields on 4/19/2018
Intel Announces Chip-Level Security Initiatives, iGPU-Based Malware Scanning
Taking place this week is the annual RSA conference, which has evolved to become a major trade show for security products and technologies. As one might expect, it's also...
36 by Anton Shilov on 4/17/2018
Power Stamp Alliance Exposes Ice Lake Xeon Details: LGA4189 and 8-Channel Memory
For everyone waiting for Cascade Lake, Intel’s next server Xeon platform, to be launched, noise is being made from the Power Stamp Alliance and its members about the platform...
37 by Ian Cutress on 4/9/2018
Intel Expands 8th Gen Core: Core i9 on Mobile, Iris Plus, Desktop, Chipsets, and vPro
The march from Intel for everything to be under the ‘8th Gen Intel Core’ branding is now at its climax: today is the official launch of several new 8th...
124 by Ian Cutress on 4/3/2018
Passive Compulab Airtop2 SFF Workstation Launched, with Xeon E3 and Quadro
Compulab this week has introduced a new generation of its passively-cooled Airtop workstations. The new updated models, called Airtop 2, use Intel's latest Xeon E3 v6 processors, featuring the...
8 by Anton Shilov on 2/20/2018
Living On The Edge: Intel Launches Xeon D-2100 Series SoCs
For certain groups of users, Intel’s Xeon D product line has been a boon in performance per watt metrics. The goal of offering a fully integrated enterprise-class chip, with...
23 by Ian Cutress on 2/7/2018
Dell EMC Launches PowerEdge XR2 Rugged Server: 1U, 44 Cores, 512 GB RAM, 30 TB Storage
Dell EMC on Tuesday introduced its new-generation rugged PowerEdge XR servers, designed to work in harsh environments of industrial sites or even conflict zones. The new machines are equipped...
13 by Anton Shilov on 12/6/2017
Intel to Update Xeon D in Early 2018, with Skylake-SP Cores
One of the interesting sub-announcements to come out of Intel’s EPYC benchmark numbers was a slide on the ‘momentum’ of Intel’s new Xeon Scalable Platform using Skylake-SP cores. Alongside...
8 by Ian Cutress on 11/29/2017
Intel Xeon E3-1200 v7 Will Become Xeon Entry (Xeon E), Possible Intel with Radeon Graphics Launch
The last 12 months have seen an upheaval of Intel’s enterprise processor naming scheme, with a distinct mix of positive and negative responses. In previous years, Intel followed a...
8 by Ian Cutress on 11/28/2017
Dissecting Intel's EPYC Benchmarks: Performance Through the Lens of Competitive Analysis
Although the AMD EPYC is definitely a worthy contender in the server space, AMD's technical marketing of the new CPU has been surprisingly absent, as the company not published...
105 by Johan De Gelas & Ian Cutress on 11/28/2017
Dual Xeon Scalable Overclocking: ASUS WS C621E 'Sage' Workstation Motherboard Announced
ASUS has quietly announced a new motherboard: the WS C621E SAGE (or just 'Sage' for short). This workstation class board offers users dual Intel LGA-3647 sockets with CPUs up...
48 by Joe Shields on 10/24/2017
Intel Documents Point to AVX-512 Support for Cannon Lake Consumer CPUs
A new update to the Intel document for software developers indicates that the company will begin to introduce various AVX-512 instruction set extensions to its consumer CPUs soon. This...
50 by Anton Shilov on 10/19/2017
Best CPUs for Workstations 2017
In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended workstation CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the...
3 by Ian Cutress on 10/2/2017
New Intel Kaby Lake Core i3 Processors: i3-7340, i3-7320T, i3-7120T, i3-7120
Last week Intel recently updated its specifications for the 7th generation processors. In doing so, we can see several new Kaby Lake i3 SKUs coming to desktop, along with...
52 by Ian Cutress & Joe Shields on 7/14/2017
TYAN Launches Latest Generation Skylake-SP Xeon Server Platforms
A few weeks ago we talked about Tyan’s demonstration of two new HPC servers for high-performance computing and deep workloads, the Tyan FT77D-B7109 and FT48B-B1700. Tyan looks to continue...
16 by Joe Shields on 7/13/2017
Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000 - The Server CPU Battle of the Decade?
This morning kicks off a very interesting time in the world of server-grade CPUs. Officially launching today is Intel's latest generation of Xeon processors, based on the "Skylake-SP" architecture...
219 by Johan De Gelas & Ian Cutress on 7/11/2017
Intel's Data Center Event Live Blog (8:30am PT)
Today Intel is running an event announcing the latest developments in their data center business. We're ready to live blog the registration-only event, and expect to see Navin Shenoy...
11 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 7/11/2017
TYAN Shows Two Skylake-SP-Based HPC Servers with Up to 8 Xeon Phi/Tesla Modules
At ISC 17 this sweek, TYAN has demonstrated two new HPC servers based on the latest Intel Xeon processors for high-performance computing and deep learning workloads. The new HPC...
3 by Anton Shilov on 6/23/2017
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