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Intel Announces New 15-core Enterprise CPU

posted by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @06:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-i-can-play-my-games-faster-right? dept.

Popeidol writes

"Intel has announced the latest revision to it's Enterprise CPU range. The Xeon E7 v2 is based on Ivy Bridge rather than the aging Westmere, and specifically targets the Big Data Analytics market. In pursuit of this they've bumped up the core count to 15, reduced power consumption, reworked the cache, and included a long list of smaller improvements. The end result is a high-reliability chip that uses less power but has dramatically improved performance for most workloads.

A single-page version of the article is available here."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by kebes on Saturday February 22 2014, @07:21PM

    by kebes (1505) on Saturday February 22 2014, @07:21PM (#4920)
    Assuming the image in TFA [hothardware.com] is actually correct, the chip seems to have exactly 15 cores, arranged in 3 columns of 5 cores.

    You're of course right that manufacturers sell partially-functional chips at lower cost. So we will probably see cheaper versions of this chip (e.g. with only 12 of the cores enabled).
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