Intel introduced a new family of server chips Bashny.Net

It was recently presented another creation of Intel - Chipset family Xeon E5-2600 v3. According to the company-developer, the new chips - a way to improve the "legacy" data centers. According to Diana Bryant (Diane Bryant), senior vice president and general manager Data Center Group Intel, the chip Xeon E5-2600 v3 - the fastest server chip ever created by the company.



Based on the data chip microarchitecture Haswell. By manufacture the 22-nanometer technology with bulk transistors Tri-Gate. The architecture provides up to 18 cores with a maximum frequency of up to 3.7GHz and cache level 3 to 45 MB. Also in the new family made a significant update - added support for RAM DDR4. DDR4 memory provides 40 percent increase in throughput, while reducing 35 percent of energy consumption. New correction algorithms provide higher reliability for data processing, which reduces the number of errors compared to DDR3.

Also has a built-in support for NVMe, by which SSDs can be placed in the faster slots PCI-Express. Servers equipped with these chips will support solid state drives (SSD) up to 2TB. Simplify management and cooling servers. According to the manufacturer, processor Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 have the world's best energy efficiency (performance per unit of energy).

Extended instruction set Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel AVX2) has significantly increased productivity in operations with integers. In addition, enhanced instruction set Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel AES-NI), which facilitates the operation of encryption and decryption.

In the new chips increased bandwidth, which is approximately twice reduces latency. Grantley (codename chipset family Xeon E5-2600 v3), among others, support 40 Gbps Ethernet. The novelty will replace the chip Xeon E5-2600 v2 codenamed Romley, which are in the new fiscal quarter totaled more than 80 percent of all server chips supplied by Intel. Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, IBM, Huawei and other companies have already announced the release of servers based on the new chips Intel.

Speaking about the new chip, it is worth noting that Intel did what just good in its way, but has positioned it as the best. The most significant technological change - is the addition of cores and memory support DDR4. Everything else was built around it.

To illustrate, you can make out an excerpt from the release: "up to 18 cores with a maximum frequency of up to 3.7GHz and cache level 3 to 45 MB." Worthy of special attention the word "before", as presented in прайсе is the number of cores and cache memory provided in a single chip - Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2699 v3, which was announced but not available to order, and stated 3.7GHz frequency anywhere else in this price list does not appear. Available for bookings up to at the moment - 14 cores, which is not bad. We hope that this is associated with debugging processes of the new chips, and all the declared capabilities will eventually become available to a wide range of consumers, but light taste of marketing bullshit still remained.

Very pleased that progress is not in place, and companies improve their development, but this progress has seemed more like a marketing game in order to gain more profit. Instead of the long-awaited release of the masses of the family of chips based on 14-nanometer technology, which is still delayed, the company publishes more and more, "Heated" press releases and modify old products with a file, adding a small bun and a serious markup. And we are left to wait for a true technological breakthrough, and be content with what we have.

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