Intel rolls first processor optimized for datacenters
R. Colin Johnson
EETimes (3/6/2012 12:01 PM EST)
PORTLAND, Ore.—Intel Corp. says it has designed its first processor built from the ground up for the "green" datacenters of the future, claiming a 70 percent increase in performance for the same energy consumption. The new E5-2600 also features a high-speed bi-directional ring encircling its up to eight cores per socket connecting up to 20 Mbytes of cache, quad DDR3 memory controllers and 40-lanes of PCI-Express 3 for input/output (I/O).
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