Intel Introduces High-End Xeon Server Processors

Intel Corporation has extended its position in the high-end server segment with the launch of seven 45 nanometer (nm)-manufactured Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products. With up to six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory, applications built for virtualised environments and data demanding workloads, such as databases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation, can experience a performance increase of almost 50 percent in some cases.

Platforms based on these processors can scale up to 16 processor ‘sockets’ to deliver servers with up to 96 processing cores inside, offering scalability, computing threads, memory resources and reliability for enterprise data centres.

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“The arrival of these processors extends Intel’s lead in the high-end server segment,” said R Ravichandran, director – Sales, Intel South Asia. “This new processor series helps IT manage increasingly complex enterprise server environments, providing a great opportunity to boost the scalable performance of multi-threaded applications within a stable platform infrastructure. With new features such as additional cores, large shared caches and advanced virtualisation technologies, the Xeon 7400 series delivers performance that will lead enterprises into the next wave of virtualisation deployments.”

Role of Intel India

The Intel India team is behind Intel’s first 6-core x86 microprocessor from Bangalore - the Intel Xeon 7400 series processor - formerly codenamed Dunnington. Dunnington is Intel’s first six-core CPU with 16 MB of L3 cache memory and 1.9 billion transistors.

The Intel India team planned and executed end-to-end design activities including front-end design, pre-silicon logic validation and the back-end design for Dunnington, which completes the transition of the entire Intel Xeon family to Intel’s 45nm Hi-k manufacturing process. It is socket compatible with the Intel Xeon 7300, while delivering up to 1.5x performance/ watt benefit, making the transition cost effective. The Intel India design team from Bangalore, through partnerships with several cross-site teams delivered the product. The Xeon MP server is a platform suited for virtualisation and the new Xeon 7400 processor offers enhanced performance and support for Intel VT FlexMigration along with server system level scalability.

Praveen Vishakantaiah, president, Intel India, said, “The quality of available talent, technology ecosystem and business potential are factors, which make India a strategic business site for Intel. We have achieved a considerable degree of expertise in product design and the proof of this is in today’s launch of the six core x86 processor, which has been completely designed here. I am incredibly proud of the team for having delivered India’s first ever microprocessor design.”