Intel launches the Xeon E7-8800/4800 v3 (Xeon E7 v3)-- a server processor family the company says is its fastest for data analytics, engineering and scientific workloads, available with up to 18 cores.
"In the digital services economy, success or failure can depend on how quickly businesses act on insight from vast stores of data," Chipzilla claims. "The Intel Xeon processor E7 v3 family is the engine for accelerating business intelligence through real-time analytics, enabling businesses to improve customer satisfaction through more personalized products and services, generate new revenue streams and enhance operational efficiency."
The processors promise a 40% average performance improvement over the previous generation, with Transactional Synchronisation Extensions (TSX) boosting business processing application performance by up to 6x. The series supports a maximum of 32 sockets, and can handle a memory footprint of up to 1.5TB.
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