These are the company's newest and best data center central processors

Sep 11, 2013 07:12 GMT  ·  By

Some may have thought that Intel's Ivy Bridge-E central processing units would be the only overpowered CPUs unleashed during IDF 2013, but this is not the case, as has just been revealed.

The Santa Clara, California-based company has also unleashed Ivy Bridge-EP units, which will sell under the age-old Xeon brand name and will be even stronger than Ivy Bridge-E.

They are designed on the 22nm manufacturing process technology and have up to 12 cores and 50% more performance than previous-generation Xeons.

The energy efficiency improvements are considerable as well, of as much as 45%. Data centers and supercomputers will definitely benefit from these assets.

The Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family is versatile, addressing a wider variety of data center workloads.

The IBM NeXtScale System will be the first to show off the capabilities of the Ivy Bridge-EP CPU collection.

IBM has also prepared the x3650 M4 HD high-density storage server, and two-socket systems including System x racks and towers, BladeCenter offerings, Flex System, and iDataPlex.

The Xeon Processor E5-2600 v2 product family will include members priced at $202 / €202 to $2,614 / €2,614.

Three single-socket Intel Xeon processor E5-1600 parts will be launched for workstations too, priced at $294 / €294 to $1,080 / €1,080.

Many companies will use the new line one way or another, like Acer, HP, Hitachi, Huawei, Apple, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, Cray, Cisco, etc.

"More than ever, organizations are looking to information technology to transform their businesses," said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel.

"Offering new cloud-based services requires an infrastructure that is versatile enough to support the diverse workloads and is flexible enough to respond to changes in resource demand across servers, storage and network."

Clearly, when Intel said it fully expected humanity to enter the age of Megacities by 2050, it was serious. The Ivy Bridge-EP CPU line is one of the means to move things one step in that direction.