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Dense server battle to heat up with Intel's Xeon D next year |
September 11, 2014
Ahead of competition from ARM servers, Intel is putting more weight in the server space with a new Xeon D family of chips, which will be in systems next year.Xeon D chips will be the first server chips based on the Broadwell architecture, and will go into dense servers starting next year, the chipmaker said at the Intel Developer Forum.Intel has started shipping the Xeon D chips to customers for testing, said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, during a keynote on Wednesday.The chips are targeted at hyperscale workloads, in which servers are consistently added to scale performance. Companies like Facebook and Google buy servers in the thousands to deal with growing workloads.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2606052/dense-server-battle-to-heat-up-with-intels-xeon-d-next-year.html#tk.rss_all
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