Intel Unveils New Atom and Xeon Processors and Future Rack Scale Architecture 73
MojoKid writes "Intel recently revealed a number of details regarding future Atom and Xeon processors and proposed server rack-level enhancements to improve efficiency and ease upgrades. The company will soon refresh its Xeon and Atom processor lines with new products manufactured using Intel's 22nm process node, which offer improved performance per watt characteristics and expanded feature sets. In total, Intel revealed details of three new low-power, Atom-branded SoCs for the data center, all coming in 2013. Intel is also updating the Xeon E3, E5, and E7 product lines. The Atom processor family will see new SoCs based on designs codenamed Briarwood, Avoton, and Rangeley, while the more powerful Xeons will be updated with Haswell, Ivy Bridge EP, and Ivy Bridge EX-based designs. Xeon E3s will leverage the increased graphics performance of Haswell to improve performance in multimedia-related workloads, like HD video transcodes. OHaswell-based Xeon E3 processors will also offer improved performance per watt over existing Sandy and Ivy Bridge-based designs and Intel will offer Xeon E3 processors with TDPs as low as 13 watts, approximately 25% lower than the prior generation."
Re:Compatible with Windows 7? (Score:3, Informative)
Windows 7 requires legacy (PCI) components to boot. Windows 8 doesn't. /conspiracy
Re: Compatible with Windows 7? (Score:1, Informative)
Windows 8 is fine. Either install a start menu or learn to use all the keyboard shortcuts to use Metro as little as possible.
It's better than windows 7 if you can manage for the whole week it takes to get used to the UI.
Re:Far Cry 3!!!! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Far Cry 3!!!! (Score:4, Informative)
So bizarrely these days it's worth buying Xeon if you want a huge discount on the desktop CPU prices.
Maybe you should look at desktop CPU prices then? These are all mobile chips you're comparing to...
Re: Compatible with Windows 7? (Score:2, Informative)
I guess your time is worth $0/hour?
Ah the classic piece of anti-Linux FUD. I haven't seen this one here in a while.
Your comment implies that Linux takes up more time than Windows. It doesn't. Not only is the OS free, but you waste less of your valuable time messing with it and get a more efficient environment. A net win in every way.
Also, your attitude is, frankly, baffling. It's part of "the computer is a tool and should get out of my way" attitude which is so wrong it's hilarious. A computer certainly is a tool and given ther amount of use it gets it is some sort of insanity not to spend some time optimizing its use.
If people with this attitude were woodworkers, then you'd see them hacking away with a screwdriver and clawhammer, rather than a chisel and mallet. Oh and also, every piece made would be riddled with woodworm, made out of random bits of wood, have sticky drawers and would collapse about 3 weeks after it shipped, destrooying everything that was held within it.
But then I suppose it's not all that baffling. Most people I know cook for themselves, frequently, yet not a single one has a blue clue how to sharpen a knife. Yet they spend far longer mashing away with a butter knife cunningly disguised as a chefs knife, or use teeny serrated knifes since they stay sharp longer, and keep using well past the point where they are serrated butter knives.
And people get drowned under email and REFUSE to learn how to use filters.
I know people who commute by bike yet mysteriously haven't even learned to adjust the little cable twiddlers to account for brakepad wear. They then keep haveing to take the bike in to "get repaired" because it's a "piece of crap".
All of these people would save valuable time and have a nicer, less frustrating life if they learned the the bare basics of the tools they use day to day.
Given your implied attitide, you are among them. I would heartily recommend leaving their ranks and join the ranks of the tool users. We are a happy bunch and have nice tools.
Re: Compatible with Windows 7? (Score:4, Informative)
Only Windows 7 has IE 8.
That is a must for my job if I get a netbook and Windows 8 comes with IE 10 so that is a no go. Windows 7 support is a must for me
You can run IE10 on compatibility mode, and it can go down to at least IE7 mode. http://techathlon.com/internet-explorer-10-run-compatibility-mode/ [techathlon.com] . I think you can even enforce the compatibility mode via GPO