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’s Full Enterprise Portfolio: An Interview with VP of Xeon, Lisa Spelman
With the launch of Intel’s Third Generation Xeon Scalable platform based on 10nm Ice Lake processors, Intel has upgraded a part of the company that makes the BIG money...
94 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/15/2021
GIGABYTE Server: Three New E-ATX Motherboards For Intel Ice Lake-SP Xeons
Hot on the heels of Intel's latest Ice Lake-SP 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable processor launch, GIGABYTE Server has listed three new motherboards designed for server use. The GIGABYTE Server...
10 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/6/2021
Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake SP) Review: Generationally Big, Competitively Small
The launch of Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors has been in the wings for a number of years. The delays to Intel’s 10nm manufacturing process have given a...
169 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/6/2021
Intel’s DPG Launch Event April 6th: Early Look at 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake)
Today Intel has announced that it will be holding a launch event on April 6th for the new vision of its Data Platform Group. This event is set to...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/19/2021
Intel Ice Lake Xeon Scalable Shipments To Date: 30 Customers, 100k+ Units
We’re gearing up for a busy time when it comes to server announcements, with the recent news that AMD will be launching its next generation platform on March 15th...
30 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/9/2021_carousel.jpg)
HP Updates The ZBook Lineup With Power And Fury
Today HP is launching updates to their ZBook lineup with the new HP ZBook Fury 15 and 17, and the ZBook Power G7 mobile workstations offering performance, manageability, and...
25 by Brett Howse on 9/1/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Next Gen Intel Xeon, Ice Lake-SP (9:30am PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
26 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
How to Save $6000 on a 28-core Flagship Intel Xeon: Platinum 8280 vs Gold 6258R
In February 2020, Intel launched eighteen new Xeon Scalable second generation processors. These mid-cycle additions to Intel’s product portfolio were designed to bolder up Intel’s server offerings on a...
82 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/7/2020
Xeon Platinum 9200 at Scale: Penguin Computing’s new 7616 Cores-Per-Rack Solution
Some aspects of computing rely on density, and need to pack as many compute processing elements in the smallest space possible. Intel’s Xeon Platinum 9200 range was created to...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/3/2020
The Intel W480 Motherboard Overview: LGA1200 For Xeon W-1200
During Intel's unveiling of the Z490 chipset and Intel Core 10th generation Comet Lake processors, Intel also announced its series of Xeon W-1200 processors. To accompany this announcement, without...
38 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/24/2020
Intel Launches Cooper Lake: 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable for 4P/8P Servers
We’ve known about Intel’s Cooper Lake platform for a number of quarters. What was initially planned, as far as we understand, as a custom silicon variant of Cascade Lake...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/18/2020_carousel.jpg)
Lenovo’s New ThinkPad P1 Gen3 for Professionals: OLED, 8-core Xeon, Quadro
At the high-end of Lenovo’s ThinkPad designs, where professionals need server-grade features like ECC and graphics focused on compute or rendering, we get the P1 model which is updated...
60 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/17/2020
ASRock Rack Announces W480D4U, Micro-ATX for Intel Xeon W-1200
With Intel recently announcing its Xeon-W1200 series product stack for W480, ASRock's server arm, ASRock Rack, has lifted the lid on one its micro-ATX model based on the W480...
10 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/14/2020
Intel Announces Xeon W-1200 Series: Comet Lake for Workstations, W480
Aside from Comet Lake vPro being announced today, Intel is also lifting the lid on a new series of processors: W-1200. This line of parts are analogous to Intel’s...
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/13/2020
Intel Initiates EOL for the VCA2: Three Xeons on a PCIe Card
One of Intel’s more interesting products over the recent years was its range of Visual Compute Accelerator cards, designed to help cloud streaming and encoding/decoding of HD and UHD...
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/12/2020
Intel’s Cooper Lake Plans: The Chip That Wasn’t Meant to Exist, Fades Away
Following an exclusive report from SemiAccurate, and confirmed by Intel through ServeTheHome, the news on the wire is that Intel is set to can wide-spread general availability to its...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/17/2020
New Intel Cascade Lake Xeon 'Performance' CPUs: Cutting Prices Too
While this year’s official Mobile World Congress event may have been canceled, a number of vendors are still going ahead with their previously scheduled product announcements and launches. Among...
37 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2020
Intel Cuts 2nd Gen 'Extended Memory' Xeon Scalable Prices
Today Intel will be officially starting product discontinuation of ‘M’ medium sized memory Xeon Scalable CPUs. Due to customer feedback and sales figures, Intel has deemed it in the...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/16/2020
AnandTech Year In Review 2019: Lots of CPUs
Throughout 2019, we’ve had quite the reverse of performance when it comes to the competitiveness of the modern performance-oriented desktop processor. This year we’ve seen AMD introduce its Zen...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/27/2019
Intel Recalls Quad Core Xeon CPU Because of Inadequate Stock Cooler
Intel this week recalled one of its boxed processors because the bundled cooling system the company supplied has been found to be insufficient for fully cooling the CPU. For...
27 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2019
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