Intel Introduces First Dual-Core Low-Voltage Xeon Processor
Intel Corporation accounsed today its first low-voltage Intel Xeon processor. It is the first low鈥搗oltage Intel Xeon processor to combine dual鈥揷ore technology with Intel鈥檚 innovative power management capabilities, helping to boost energy鈥揺fficient price/performance with up to two to four times the performance鈥損er鈥搘att of previous Intel Xeon processors and platforms.
The historical need for raw computing performance has evolved into a drive for energy鈥揺fficient performance to meet people鈥檚 expanding demands 鈥� whether for smaller devices, lower cooling bills or better price/performance per watt. Energy鈥揺fficient performance enables equipment manufacturers to optimally balance processing capabilities with power and space constraints to help meet those demands. Intel is driving innovations in multi鈥揷ore computing architectures through a combination of silicon, architecture, platform and software innovations to enable new levels of performance, capabilities and energy efficiency.
With total dissipated power (TDP) of 31 watts, the new low鈥搗oltage Dual鈥揅ore Intel Xeon processor is ideal for deployments requiring high compute density and power optimization, including single鈥揾eight (1U) chassis and blade servers, SAN and NAS solutions, and network infrastructure equipment. The new processor excels at handling demanding multi鈥搕hreaded, multi鈥搕asking applications such as high鈥損erformance computing and financial services.
鈥淭he low鈥搗oltage Dual鈥揅ore Intel Xeon processor鈥檚 combined enhancements in performance and energy efficiency, along with the efficient power and cooling design of IBM鈥檚 industry鈥搇eading BladeCenter, deliver a leadership integer performance鈥損er鈥搘att solution,鈥� said Doug Balog, vice president and business line executive, IBM BladeCenter. 鈥淭he new IBM BladeCenter Ultra Low Power HS20 blade is a solid example of the innovation being brought to market through Intel and IBM鈥檚 blade collaboration.鈥�
To accelerate time to market for telecommunications equipment makers and original equipment manufacturers, Intel also plans to introduce the AdvancedTCA鈥揷ompliant Intel NetStructure MPCBL0040 Single Board Computer (SBC). This new, high鈥揹ensity鈥揷ompute SBC features two of the new low鈥搗oltage Intel Xeon processors, which equates to four high鈥損erformance cores per SBC. With the performance boost of the new dual鈥揷ore processor, the MPCBL0040 is expected to service far more transactions and subscribers per system than previous generation products, which can help significantly reduce the cost per subscriber and/or transaction and total cost of ownership. This powerful processing capability, offered in the AdvancedTCA standard, is ideal for applications where transaction and subscriber load can increase dramatically in a very short time, such as IP Multimedia Services (IMS), Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and Wireless Control Plane applications.
Intel is also planning to offer a blade server solution powered by up to two of the new Dual鈥揅ore Intel Xeon processors LV for ultra鈥揹ense, low鈥損ower environments where density is limited by power and cooling capabilities. The Intel Server Compute Blade SBXD62 will enable server OEMs and resellers to offer their small鈥� and medium鈥搒ized business customers a blade server platform to help reduce operational costs and extend IT resources through improved price/performance/watt, operational efficiencies, deployment flexibility and simplified management.
The Dual鈥揅ore Intel Xeon processor LV 2.0 GHz and 1.66 GHz are available from Intel now for $423 and $209 per unit, respectively, in 1,000鈥搖nit quantities.
Source: Intel
