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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: 2, Interesting) by blackpaw on Saturday February 22 2014, @10:35PM

    by blackpaw (2554) on Saturday February 22 2014, @10:35PM (#4986) Journal

    Wonder how well it would work as a VM Host. A KVM cluster of these could serve a lot of VM's ...

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