Intel meshes up Xeon D processors with Skylake Server cores
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Two years after Intel introduced the Xeon D family of low-power server platforms, the wave of ARM processors for the data center that those Broadwell system-on-chips were meant to stave off hasn't yet broken. The Xeon D family, then, has most likely succeeded in its mission of providing capable and efficient computing hardware for what's now being called "edge" computing: the last step between large data centers and users on PCs, smartphones, or an increasingly broad range of smart devices. Think a lot of small, lightweight tasks instead of a few big, heavy ones.
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