14 DAY TRIAL // Intel is mostly advertising the Haswell line of central processing units right now, but its Ivy Bridge architecture continues to be used as well. The Xeon E5-2651 v2 is a particularly fickle example.
I say this because the 12-core CPU was briefly available online last week, on Amazon, but it was listed as discontinued soon after.
Now, only TigerDirect and some smaller online shops still have it.
The chip has 12 Ivy bridge cores running at 1.8 GHz, plus a L3 cache memory of 30 MB, as well as Hyper-Threading technology which turns the 12 physical cores into 24 logical ones.
That's useful in servers that need to sustain several incoming and outgoing networking connections at once.
The rest of the specs are unrevealed even now. Still, for something priced at $2,100 / €2,100 they are bound to be impressive. The memory controller should be considerably apt, if nothing else.