Intel is officially launching a brand new series of Xeon processors today, the Xeon Processor E5 v4. Unlike mainstream desktop products, which feature Intel’s latest core technologies like the Skylake-based Core i7-6700K, mission-critical, big-iron parts like the Xeon E5 v4 series are more complex and go through much more qualification, and as such tend to leverage core technologies that have long been proven in the consumer space. The the Xeon Processor E5 v4 family, for example, is based on Broadwell, or more specifically Broadwell-EP. There is a large assortment of Xeon E5 v4 series processors en route targeting a wide array of market segments, from high-performance professional workstations to multi-socket servers for big data analytics. The Xeon E5 v4 series processors supplant last year’s E5 v3 series, which was based on Haswell-EP...



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