Xeon E5-2600 v4 CPUs pave the way for the clouds of tomorrow
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Intel released its Broadwell-EP Xeons today under the E5-2600 v4 umbrella. These chips include a number of features that virtualization-administrator readers may be interested in, including some fancy cache-management tools. The Broadwell-EP "tick" moves to a 14-nm fabrication process, and Intel has used this die shrink to increase core count while maintaining single-thread performance and holding the TDP line, according to Anandtech's review. Maximum supported DDR4 speeds also increase from 2133 MT/s to 2400 MT/s on some chips. The 22-core, 44-thread E5-2699 v4 is the king of this lineup, and it includes a massive 55MB of last-level cache. That's just one chip in the lineup, though.
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