Xeon

Red Hat signals Intel's software-defined silicon will debut in Linux 5.18

Silicon giant still not saying what it will mean in the real world

Systems14 Feb 2022 | 45

India turns on a new supercomputer

Pram Pravega's 3.3 petaFLOPS should make it India's fourth entrant in the Top500 list

HPC07 Feb 2022 | 1

Intel teases 'software-defined silicon' with Linux kernel contribution – and won't say why

It might enable activation of entirely new features on existing Xeon CPUs … or, you know, not

On-Prem19 Oct 2021 | 47

Google says it's gonna put Intel's 10nm Ice Lake Xeons into its public cloud soon, any day now, just you wait...

Chill out, OK?

PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2021 | 3

Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations

They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0

Personal Tech30 Jul 2021 | 20

Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group

Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs

Systems22 Jun 2021 | 6

Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean

Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud

SaaS24 Feb 2021 |

Latest Xeons land in new Huawei server despite looming US ban

Although Huawei’s details are rather thin on this one

Systems19 Jun 2020 | 4

In colossal surprise, Intel says new vPro processors are quite a bit better than the old ones

And just the thing for remote work, which was so not a thing when these were designed

Personal Tech13 May 2020 | 14

AWS unleashes custom Arm processor – the Graviton2 – in new EC2 M6g instance type

Xeon, shmeon: Netflix loves ‘em and AWS has more instance types using it coming soon

On-Prem12 May 2020 |

AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon

All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm?

Systems14 Apr 2020 | 13

Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020

Exclusive Traditional IT titans take backseat behind cloud giants

Systems20 Jan 2020 | 43

Intel: Let's talk about SGX, baby. Let's talk about 2U and me. Let's talk about all the good things, and the bad...

RSA Chipzilla rips sticker off its graphics accelerator, switches off GPU – now you're a security wizard, Harry!

Security27 Feb 2019 | 4

Es are good, Es are good. Xeon Es are good, says Intel: Entry-level workstation CPUs touted

Single-socket job wakes up and smells the Coffee Lake

Systems13 Jul 2018 | 12

Intel chip flaw: Math unit may spill crypto secrets from apps to malware

Updated Nasties on Cores, Xeons may lift computations, mitigations in place or coming

Security13 Jun 2018 | 67

Good luck, have fun: Thanks Xeon SP, now SPEC benchmarks blurt out hundreds of results

Comment We're supposed to sift through this without a tool?

Systems19 Feb 2018 | 7

Ex-Chipzilla exec Arms biz to SoC it to Intel in the data centre

Ampere Computing serving against reigning champ using reheated X-Gene tech

Systems06 Feb 2018 | 5

Intel drags Xeon Phi Knights Hill chips out back... two shots heard

Updated Chipzilla goes back to the drawing board on many-core math accelerator line

HPC16 Nov 2017 | 31

Intel bolts bonus gubbins onto Skylake cores, bungs dozens into Purley Xeon chips

Deep dive Inside Chipzilla's new security measures

Systems12 Jul 2017 | 24

Qualcomm's server silicon has a cloud customer: Packet

Rival ARM-wrestling cloud Scaleway has added 64-core Caviums

On-Prem23 Jun 2017 | 1

EPYC leak! No, it's better than celeb noodz: AMD's forthcoming server CPU

Specs and performance deets in the wild

Systems16 Jun 2017 | 22

Posting in an EPYC thread: AMD renames Xeon-bashing Naples

Data centre CPU boasts more cores, IO, memory bandwidth than Intel's

Storage17 May 2017 | 4

Dell sneaks speeds-and-feeds-free peek at 14th-gen PowerEdge servers

Dell EMC World Ooooo! Hemmed edges!

Storage08 May 2017 | 3

Intel gives Xeon a makeover to bring us colour-coded clouds

Any Chipzilla kit for data centres are now members of the 'Xeon Scalable Family'

On-Prem04 May 2017 | 8

Big-in-Japan AI code 'Chainer' shows how Intel will gun for GPUs

Chainer makes TensorFlow look like treacle, but until this week it didn't speak Xeon

AI + ML07 Apr 2017 | 5

Core Blimey! Azure moving from physical to virtual cores

Updated Chases AWS prices with custom Broadwell E5-2673 v4 at 2.3GHZ

SaaS04 Apr 2017 | 7

Google trumpets cloudy Skylake silicon nobody else is running

Intel just doesn't sell this kit yet. Not in the cloud. Not on-premises. Not anywhere

SaaS27 Feb 2017 | 5

Supermicro boasts of secret super server Silicon Valley win

30,000+ into a single 'valley data centre - but whose is it?

Systems07 Feb 2017 | 9

Intel soundlessly emits Broadwell Xeon E5-4600 v4 quad-socket chips

She's built like an E5 but handles like an E7

On-Prem26 Jul 2016 |

Qualcomm's China JV licences ARMv8-A for server CPUs

First target is Middle Kingdom's Big Data province and its 2.5 million servers

Systems13 Jul 2016 |

You don't need no STEEENKING GPU, says Intel

Xeon E3-1500 v5 plans to 4k-up video and VDI, even more so with 3D Xpoint

Personal Tech01 Jun 2016 | 18

Here's what an Intel Broadwell Xeon with a built-in FPGA looks like

Pic Writing code is so 2013 – you wanna write some hardware instead

On-Prem14 Mar 2016 | 35

JURECA! Germany flips big red switch on 2.2 petaflop supercomputer

Machine open to all fields of data-crunching

HPC16 Nov 2015 | 4

Oracle, Intel team on server with a dimmer switch

Big Red looks to be in custom Xeons for the long haul

Systems04 Jun 2015 | 2

Chips of the world, Unite: Intel bakes Iris Pro gfx into new Xeon

Computex 2015 Plus: New meeting software lets you beam your ugly mug to world+dog

Systems02 Jun 2015 | 1

Intel's new chips are from 'Purley' – know what I mean? Know what I mean? Say no more

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat

Systems27 May 2015 | 15

Unisys weans itself off homebrew chippery, finally slurps Intel gear

New colosso-iron ClearPath Dorado 8300 is all Chipzilla, all the time

Systems26 May 2015 | 4

Big Blue embiggens little iron to match the march of the Xeon

Power 8 gets some four-socket goodness

Systems12 May 2015 | 1

Intel raises memory deflector shields in Xeon E7 processor refresh

Silicon will lock off shared RAM so you don't have to do it in code

Systems05 May 2015 | 10

Intel SoCs it to 'em with new D: Tiny but powerful

Chipzilla reveals more on plan to stuff Broadwells in hyperscale data centre

Systems09 Mar 2015 | 13

Amazon's new EC2 compute instances run on SECRET INTEL CHIPS

Custom Xeons power high-perf cloudy number crunchers

SaaS13 Jan 2015 | 10

Intel's SECRET Xeons: tell us what you think Chipzilla's hiding

POLL New Xeons come in 35 flavours Intel won't reveal … which is where YOU come in

Personal Tech10 Sep 2014 | 14

Intel's DDR4-friendly Xeon workhorses bolt for workstations, servers

New E5 v3 chips available in 32 different flavors for Dell, IBM, Cray et al

Channel08 Sep 2014 | 5

Fujitsu, Intel tilt at hyperscale storage with Ceph-powered arrays

Bring us your OpenStackers, your HPcers and your media streamers yearning to store free

Storage03 Sep 2014 | 3

Intel teams with Micron on next-gen many-core Xeon Phi with 3D DRAM

Introduces new 'fundamental building block of HPC systems' with Intel Omni Scale Fabric

HPC23 Jun 2014 | 2

Server vendors lovingly dress Intel's latest Xeon in memory jewels

The chip is the star, but each server comes with some baubles

Systems19 Feb 2014 | 2

Intel's new Xeon: Easy to switch between dual memory modes? Uh, no

Analysis Resilience or throughput – set it then forget it

Systems19 Feb 2014 | 14

Better late than never: Monster 15-core Xeon chips let loose by Intel

New mission-critical CPUs are mission-critical to Chipzilla's critical money-making mission

Systems18 Feb 2014 | 47

Intel pulls up SoCs, reveals 'integrated' memory on CPUs

In future will stack memory atop the cores

HPC21 Nov 2013 | 17

Sketchy Soho denizens get mitts on London superheroes

Pics HP challenge draws animators to pimped-out workstations

Personal Tech18 Oct 2013 | 6

What's in it for server buyers now that Intel's Xeon E5-2600 v2 is here?

More oomph per socket – and maybe just a tiny system price hike

Systems13 Sep 2013 | 2

Intel lifts veil on future 14nm Xeon, Atom server chips

Feeds and speeds on impending "Avoton" Atom

Systems23 Jul 2013 | 6

Intel's server chip biz holds steady ahead of Ivy Bridge Xeons

Analysis Is the market eager for Ivy Bridge, or waiting for Haswell?

Systems18 Jul 2013 | 6

Chin up, Intel heads - you can still lop legs off ARM's data-centre dash

Analysis First step, stop using words like 'reimagine'

Systems08 Jul 2013 | 12

Google boasts of app tuning prowess on 'warehouse scale clusters'

Making Gmail and search sit up and bark on NUMA servers

Systems10 Jun 2013 | 1

Haswell Xeons bring brawn to microservers, media servers, more

Computex Integrated graphics engine dual-purposed for media processing

Systems04 Jun 2013 | 3