Intel Releases Many Ivy Bridge Xeon Chips This Spring

Looks like some central processing units we have already spotted have been given actual prices, only a day or so after their specifications got leaked.

The Xeon series of server CPUs is the Intel product line that fell under the watchful eye of web explorers recently.

The result was yet another episode where Intel couldn't properly guard the information about several units.

Some may guess that we are talking about the Intel Ivy Bridge Xeon E3-1200 v2 CPU family.

Their specifications have already been outlined in a previous article, which readers can find here.

Details now surfacing include the time of arrival (narrowed down to the second quarter of 2012) and the price range for the server models.

In bulk, Xeon E3 chips, like Xeon E3-1290v2, will cost between $189 and $884, which is 145 to 678 Euro. There will be 11 Ivy Bridge-H2 units in total.

The Xeon E5 family, which includes the Xeon E5-2470, will make its appearance at the same time, for prices of $192 to $1,440, or 147 to 1,105 Euro.

Digitimes was the website that provided these details and, as it happens, it went ahead to do the same for a bunch of other server units.

The Xeon E5-1660 and 1650, plus a quad-core processor, will actually precede the Xeons mentioned above.

They will arrive this quarter (Q1, 2012) and sell for $1,080 (828 Euro), $583 (447 Euro) and $294 (225 Euro), respectively.

They won't be alone, either. The Santa Clara, California-based company has seven 8-core chips (like Xeon E5-2690) four six-core, three quad-core and a dual-core unit in the pipeline as well, for the same period.

Finally, as these all come out, Intel will throw in some low-power models on the side, with six or eight cores (prices of $1,106 / 848 Euro and $662 / 508 Euro).

All in all, there should be roughly 20 server chip releases per quarter.