Unveiled: new Intel Xeon E7 chips
Intel, one of the world leaders in the microchip manufacturing industry, has unveiled a new range of low power consumption processors aimed at the data centre market.
The Xeon E7 chip family consists of the E7-8800, 4800 and 2800 processor models. They have been made using the 32 nanometre processing technology, the most up-to-date way of producing microchips, and will be capable of providing up to 40 per cent more performance power than Intel’s previous 7500 models.
One of the Xeon E7’s main strengths is its extremely low power usage. When idle, the chips use next to no power and manage their watt resources to make for a longer and stronger performance. This means that they will be cheaper to use – a great plus for big data centres and IT departments.
Written by Matthias Scherer
Matthias is a journalist and writer covering the latest news in technology as well as reviewing new computer products for PC Site. After studying journalism and economics in London, Matthias worked in radio and as a music writer for various publications in the UK and Germany, covering everything from politics and music to online publishing and social media. He is a self-diagnosed internet addict, but wrestles himself away from the computer to read books by angry young men, put on punk or rap records and watch Seinfeld.
Thu, Apr 14, 2011