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 Launches Xeon-E 2200 Series for Servers: 8 Cores, up to 5.0 GHz
The Xeon-E family from Intel replaced the Xeon E3-1200 parts that were found common place in a lot of office machines and small servers. The Xeon E parts are...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/4/2019Intel Boosts 14nm Capacity 25% in 2019, But Shortages Will Persist in Q4
Higher-than-expected demand for Intel’s server and PC processors has been an interesting topic of discussion since the middle of 2018, when Intel first informed investors of its backlogged status...
27 by Anton Shilov on 10/25/2019LGA4677 Socket Spotted: Future Server Socket with PCIe 5.0 Support
TE Connectivity, a maker of various connectivity solutions in general and CPU sockets in particular, has revealed its roadmap describing future sockets for what looks like a range of...
17 by Anton Shilov on 10/16/2019The Modular PC: Intel’s new Element brings Project Christine to Life
Way back at CES 2014, Razer’s CEO introduced a revolutionary concept design for a PC that had one main backplane and users could insert a CPU, GPU, power supply...
87 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/7/2019Intel Xeon W-2200 Family: Cascade Lake-X with ECC and 1TB Support
We recently saw the launch of the consumer Cascade Lake high-end desktop processors last week, featuring up to 18 cores at a low launch price. This week Intel is...
30 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/7/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel/Tsinghua Xeon Jintide Security CPU
Doing custom x86 CPUs is nothing new: presenting one at Hot Chips is new. Here we have Tsinghua University giving a presentation on Jintide, its custom solution built upon...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Intel to Offer Socketed 56-core Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable in new Socket Compatible with Ice Lake
Today Intel is announcing some of its plans for its future Xeon Scalable platform. The company has already announced that after the Cascade Lake series of processors launched this...
50 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/6/2019Intel's Xeon Cascade Lake vs. NVIDIA Turing: An Analysis in AI
It seems like the new motto for Silicon Valley for the last few years has been “Data is the new oil,” and for good reason. The number of companies...
56 by Johan De Gelas on 7/29/2019Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8284 CPU: When 300 MHz Cost $5,500
Besides Xeon processors that are officially mentioned on its website and price list, Intel has tens of ‘off roadmap’ server CPUs only available to select customers that have special...
82 by Anton Shilov on 7/18/2019HP Launches Z6 G4 Workstation with Intel Xeon Scalable & Quadro RTX 6000
HP has started sales of its fourth-generation Z6 workstation, which pack one or two of Intel’s Xeon Scalable processor, NVIDIA’s Quadro RTX graphics cards, as well as up to...
14 by Anton Shilov on 7/17/2019Fireside Chat with Ian and Wendell: Ryzen 3000, Zen 2, Navi, Xeon W
The last couple of weeks have been a blitz, with the Computex trade show in Taipei almost immediately followed by E3 in Los Angeles. In both instances, AMD...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/14/2019ZOTAC Launches Zbox Q-Series Mini Creator PCs: Intel Xeon & NVIDIA Quadro Inside
ZOTAC this week formally introduced its Zbox Q-series compact PCs that are powered by Intel’s Xeon processors and NVIDIA’s Quadro P-series graphics cards. The manufacturer officially calls its Zbox...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/22/2019Intel Xeon Update: Ice Lake and Cooper Lake Sampling, Faster Future Updates
Emerging workloads will require considerably higher performance, and in order to solve upcoming challenges Intel has adjusted its product roadmaps quite significantly. One of the key things that Intel...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/9/2019The New Acer ConceptD Family: Workstations and Displays for Professionals
Acer this week introduced its new ConceptD brand that will be used to market computers and other equipment designed primarily for content creators and engineers. The initial family of...
20 by Anton Shilov on 4/12/2019Dell’s New Precision 7000 Workstations: Dual Xeon, Triple RTX, 6 TB DDR4, 16 TB NVMe
Dell has announced its new Precision 7000-series workstations based on Intel’s Xeon Scalable ‘Cascade Lake-SP’ processors and supporting a bunch of new hardware options. The new systems will be...
31 by Anton Shilov on 4/8/2019Hands on with the 56-core Xeon Platinum 9200 CPU: Intel’s Biggest CPU Package Ever
When Intel announced the new Cascade Lake family as officially launched last week, it added a new product segment to its portfolio – the ‘Advanced Performance’ or AP. These...
66 by Ian Cutress on 4/8/2019Intel Architecture Manual Updates: bfloat16 for Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Only?
Intel recently released a new version of its document for software developers revealing some additional details about its upcoming Xeon Scalable ‘Cooper Lake-SP’ processors. As it appears, the new...
19 by Anton Shilov on 4/5/2019TYAN Launches 53 Platforms for Cascade Lake-SP & Optane DC Persistent Memory
TYAN has introduced its new platforms for Intel’s second-generation Xeon Scalable processors with up to 28 cores as well as Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory modules. TYAN’s range of...
0 by Anton Shilov on 4/3/2019Intel’s Enterprise Extravaganza 2019: Launching Cascade Lake, Optane DCPMM, Agilex FPGAs, 100G Ethernet, and Xeon D-1600
Today is the big day in 2019 for Intel’s Enterprise product announcements, combining some products that should be available from today and a few others set to be available...
38 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019The Intel Second Generation Xeon Scalable: Cascade Lake, Now with Up To 56-Cores and Optane!
The cadence of Intel’s enterprise processor portfolio is designed to support customers that use the hardware with a guarantee of socket and platform support for at least three years...
66 by Ian Cutress on 4/2/2019