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Intel shows off new server chips

April 6th, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

On Tuesday Intel showed their newest line of microprocessors. The Xeon E7! Intel even rented out a bank and showed the chip off in a vault to highlight that this chip will major security and reliability. These new chips are said to be specifically made for mission critical operations such as bank and stock type transactions. The Xeon E7 is suppose to be up to 40% faster than the last chip, the Xeon 7500 series and also with the world trying to go green, more energy efficient. It is been said that one rack of servers that have this new chip is more powerful than eighteen dual-core Intel servers from just five years ago. A single server is said to use 93% less energy which is one of major costs for data centers. The chips are also said to run built-in encryption much faster as well which is very important since most mangers will not use encryption on built into the chips to avoid slower performance. Although the security features have nothing to do with the new acquisition Intel just made of McAfee. With this new chip it is no surprise that Intel has 90% of the chips inside servers. The E7 chips are said to be available in 35 server systems from all major brands including IBM, Dell, Cisco Systems, and more.

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