Intel has launched a line of seven Intel Xeon Processor 7400 servers, with up to six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory.
According to Intel, they have been designed to support applications built for virtualised environments and data demanding workloads, such as business intelligence and server consolidation.
"This new processor series helps IT manage increasingly complex enterprise server environments, providing a great opportunity to boost the scalable performance of multi-threaded applications within a stable platform infrastructure,” said Tom Kilroy, v-p and general manager of Intel’s digital enterprise group.
The Zeon 7400’s claims a 50% performance increase in certain cases due to the 45nm high-k process technology and reinvented transistors that use a Hafnium-based, high-k metal gate formula.
Intel also claimed a 10% reduction in platform power, which has resulted in a world record virtualization benchmark score for four-socket, 24 processing core servers at 18.49 on a Dell PowerEdge R900 platform using VMware ESX server v3.5.0.