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 Partner Discloses Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable Launch Window
This week at Supercomputing, everyone is getting excited about next generation hardware, not only on x86 but also GPUs, POWER, Arm, FPGAs, and accelerators. The danger of having so...
17 by Ian Cutress on 11/16/2018
Intel Xeon E Six-Core Review: E-2186G, E-2176G, E-2146G, and E-2136 Tested
Despite having officially launched back in July, Intel’s Xeon E desktop platform has yet to see the light of day in systems casually available to users or small businesses...
51 by Ian Cutress on 11/5/2018
Intel Goes For 48-Cores: Cascade-AP with Multi-Chip Package Coming Soon
Ahead of the annual Supercomputing 2018 conference next week, Intel is today announcing part of its upcoming Cascade Lake strategy. Following on from its server-focused Xeon Scalable Skylake family...
91 by Ian Cutress on 11/5/2018
Samsung Shows Off 256 GB DDR4 RDIMM: Coming to Servers Soon
Samsung this week demonstrated its first 256 GB memory module for upcoming servers. The new Registered DIMM (RDIMM) is based on Samsung’s 16 Gb DDR4 memory devices introduced earlier...
18 by Anton Shilov on 10/19/2018
iBASE Launches MI995 Mini-ITX Intel CM246-Based Board for Xeon E
iBASE introduced one of the industry’s first Mini-ITX motherboards for Intel’s Xeon E processors on Tuesday. The MI995 is based on Intel’s mobile CM246 PCH and is aimed at...
7 by Anton Shilov on 10/17/2018
Intel Investing $1B to Meet 14nm Demand: Prioritizing High-End Core and Xeon
Bob Swan, Intel’s CFO and interim CEO, on Friday issued an open letter to the company’s customers and partners addressing tight supply of some of the company’s products. The...
54 by Anton Shilov on 9/28/2018
Acer Wants To Sell a Dual Xeon Predator X System: Please No
Acer’s leading gaming branding, Predator, is all about maximizing performance, particularly around gaming. In the modern era, that now extends into content creation, streaming, video editing, and all the...
37 by Ian Cutress on 8/29/2018
An Interview with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s DCG: Discussing Cooper Lake and Smeltdown
As part of Intel's Datacenter summit, we were given an opportunity to sit down with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of Xeon Products...
41 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/15/2018
Intel Server Roadmap: 14nm Cooper Lake in 2019, 10nm Ice Lake in 2020
At its Data-Centric Innovation Summit in Santa Clara today, Intel unveiled its official Xeon roadmap for 2018 – 2019. As expected, the company confirmed its upcoming Cascade Lake, Cooper...
55 by Ian Cutress & Anton Shilov on 8/8/2018
Intel to Hold Datacenter Conference Next Week
Through financial channels, Intel this week announced that it would hold a datacenter-related event for financial analysts, technology, analysts and the tech press next week in Santa Clara. There...
29 by Anton Shilov on 8/3/2018
The Intel Xeon W Review: W-2195, W-2155, W-2123, W-2104 and W-2102 Tested
Anyone looking at a high-end Intel system has three choices: Core i9, Xeon W, or the larger socket Xeon Scalable. Those first two both use the LGA2066 socket, and...
74 by Ian Cutress & Joe Shields on 7/30/2018
ASUS Launches WS C246 PRO: 4 PCIe 3.0 x16, Two M.2, Optional SAS RAID
ASUS has introduced its first Intel C246-based motherboard for Intel’s Xeon E processors. The WS C246 PRO platform is aimed at rather serious machines that use up to four...
21 by Anton Shilov on 7/27/2018
Intel Announces Q2 2018 Results: Setting More Records
All across the hardware industry 2018 is shaping up to be a banner year for earnings, and the 800lb gorilla that is Intel is no exception. Reporting their Q2’2018...
27 by Ryan Smith on 7/27/2018
Intel’s Xeon Scalable Roadmap Leaks: Cooper Lake-SP, Ice Lake-SP Due in 2020
Recently a Chinese university has published a collection of slide-decks from various companies covering a server/HPC event. Among the slides, Intel had a seemingly longer comprehensive presentation describing Intel’s...
19 by Anton Shilov on 7/25/2018
ASRock Launches C246M WS Micro-ATX Motherboard for Xeon E CPUs
ASRock Rack has announced one of the industry’s first Micro-ATX motherboards for Intel’s new Xeon E processors for entry-level servers and workstations. The C246M WS platform is aimed at...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/16/2018
Intel Launches Coffee Lake Xeon E (Entry): The Next-Gen E3-1200
Today Intel is announcing the Xeon E family of processors. The Xeon E-2100 stack of CPUs will replace the previous generation E3 v6 processors, following Intel's renaming of their...
44 by Ian Cutress on 7/12/2018
iBASE Lists C246 Motherboards for Intel Xeon E CPUs
iBASE has published specifications of its upcoming MB995VF-C246 motherboard aimed at entry-level/embedded servers and workstations that will support Intel’s upcoming (but not yet announced) Xeon E processors. The mainboard...
20 by Anton Shilov on 7/11/2018
Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory Per Socket
While Intel has yet to detail its upcoming Cascade Lake processors for servers, some of the key characteristics are beginning to emerge. According to a new report from ServeTheHome...
20 by Anton Shilov on 7/10/2018
Lenovo Unveils ThinkPad P52: 8th Gen Core or Xeon, Quadro 3200, and 128GB RAM
The new ThinkPad P52, according to Lenovo, 'sets the standard for mobile workstations by combining ThinkPad build-quality along with cutting-edge technology'. All the horsepower is designed to handle modern...
21 by Joe Shields on 6/15/2018
A Thought on Silicon Design: Intel’s LCC on HEDT Should Be Dead
In the past couple of weeks, we have been re-testing and re-analysing our second generation Ryzen 2000-series review. The extra time and writing, looking at the results and the...
31 by Ian Cutress on 6/1/2018
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