Intel Corporation today launched seven 45 nanometer Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products. With up to six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory, applications built for virtualized environments and data demanding workloads, such as databases, business intelligence, enterprise resource planning and server consolidation, experience dramatic performance increases of almost 50 percent in some cases.
Platforms based on these processors can scale up to 16 processor “sockets” to deliver servers with up to 96 processing cores inside, offering tremendous scalability, ample computing threads, extensive memory resources and uncompromising reliability for enterprise data centers.
“The arrival of these processors extends Intel’s lead in the high-end server segment,” said Tom Kilroy, Intel vice president and general manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, in the press release. “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. With new features such as additional cores, large shared caches and advanced virtualization technologies, the Xeon 7400 series delivers record-breaking performance that will lead enterprises into the next wave of virtualization deployments.”
The Intel Xeon processor 7400 series has already set new four-socket and eight-socket world records on key industry benchmarks for virtualization, database, enterprise resource planning and e-commerce. IBM, following the record-setting 1.2 million tpmC result on its eight-socket System x 3950 M2 platform, delivers an all-time high result for four-socket servers on System x 3850 M2 server with a score of 684,508 tpmC on the TPC-C benchmark, which measures database performance in an online transaction processing environment.
Based on Intel’s 45nm high-k process technology and reinvented transistors that use a Hafnium-based, high-k metal gate formula, the new Xeon 7400 series delivers exceptional performance improvements with lower power consumption. This delivers almost 50 percent better performance in some cases and up to 10 percent reduction in platform power.
These virtualization performance increases, and advanced virtualization capabilities such as Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) FlexMigration make Xeon 7400 series-based servers ideal platforms for customers to standardize their virtual infrastructures. FlexMigration enables VM migration from previous-, present- and future-generation Core microarchitecture-based platforms. This ensures investment protection for administrators seeking to establish pools of virtualized systems and using those pools to facilitate failover, disaster recovery, load balancing and optimizing server maintenance and downtime.
These products offer frequencies up to 2.66 GHz and power levels down to 50 watts, including the first 6-core, x86 compatible 65-watt version which translates to just under 11 watts per processor core, with platforms available in rack, tower and highly dense blade form factors.
The Xeon 7400 processor series is compatible with Intel’s existing Xeon 7300 series platforms and the Intel 7300 chipset with memory capacity up to 256GB, allowing IT departments to quickly deploy the new processor into a stable platform infrastructure.
Starting today, servers based on the Intel Xeon 7400 processor series are expected to be announced by more than 50 system manufacturers around the world, including four-socket rack servers from Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, Sun, Supermicro and Unisys; four-socket blade servers from Egenera, HP, Sun and NEC; and servers that scale up to 16-sockets from IBM, NEC and Unisys.
Many software vendors are also supporting Intel Xeon 7400 based platforms with innovative solutions enabling virtualization and scalable performance for the high-end enterprise, including Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP and VMware.
Pricing for the Xeon 7000 Sequence processors in quantities of 1,000 ranges from $856 to $2,729.
For more details on the Intel Xeon 7400 processor series, visit www.intel.com/xeon
mini?
Yea, but can you fit 4 of them in a 17′ MacBook Pro?
…. so the next mac pro will be a do-deca-core machine???
LOL
Maybe now there will be a new Transformer movie…lots more rendering power.
10.5.5 is out. Check your Software Updates.
A 17 foot MacBook Pro? I would think you could fit more than four in one of those!
Oh, I guess you meant 17″ MacBook Pro.
“IBM, following the record-setting 1.2 million tpmC result on its eight-socket System x 3950 M2 platform, delivers an all-time high result for four-socket servers on System x 3850 M2 server with a score of 684,508 tpmC on the TPC-C benchmark…”
Oh, Baby, nerd pr0n. I’m getting all… um, excuse me for a few minutes.
….. uhhhh
So how long do I hafta wait before Sonnett has this “upgrade” ready for my Performa ?
(I bet it will make it snappier !)
I haven’t bought any hardware this year and my ADC account runs out on the 20th. I doubt Apple will have these in Mac Pros within the next five days…
Sounds Damn Snappy
BC
I suppose it is not something I can put in my MacPro? 🙁
Oh well
So two of these makes a even dozen.
If four is a Quad Code then six is a Sex Core, right ? It probably has a special porn instruction set.
Yeah, you can shift my bits, baby. You put me into a kernel panic. Oooh, cache overflow!
This information is fun but ultimately pointless sense Mac Pros use 5000 series chips and not 7000 series
Ok when can i get a hexa-deca core Mac EFFING Pro, baby!!!
“ACE”, it would be informative to know if the 5000 chips and the 7000 chips are interchangeable. IE: like Core Duo and Core 2 Duo chips.
I’m waiting 4 years until this baby is in an iPhone. Oh Yeah!
WaooooooooooH! There come my 2010 hardware upgrades!!!!! Yesss!
@Orange Juice,
There is a Transformers 2 coming out. They filmed parts of it for 3 weeks next to my apartment back in May.
@MattMattboBatt
LOL
Boom cheeka wow wow
SIX CORES DON’T DO SQUAT!!!
If you don’t have at least 1Gz bus speed PER CORE!!!!
All these “cores” allow one to do is more CPU function, provided the “work” can be split up amongst multiple cores.
But once the work is done, if the bus speed is too slow, then it acts like a bottleneck in/out of the processors to the rest of the computer, so the processors can’t do more work!!!
Everything about a computer needs to be fast to realize REAL PERFORMANCE, not just the processors!
Lots of memory, fast bus, RAID 0 boot drives, fast video cards etc!!
But one can’t change the BUS!!! So your AWESOME MAC IS HOBBLED!!!
Don’t think these “six core machines” will help you any, except if you have a lot of CPU operations that can be broken up.
1: rendering
2: video processing
3: folding@home
4: database
Not 3D games, not multiple video displays, not a lot anything else!
@Raving MacHead…
“Don’t think these “six core machines” will help you any, except if you have a lot of CPU operations that can be broken up.
1: rendering
2: video processing
3: folding@home
4: database
So, Raving <bleep>, what you’re saying there is that six cores won’t do one any good unless that person uses them for what they were designed for? Hmmm… Imagine that.
It’s a Xeon CPU, not a Core2, Celeron, or whatever consumer CPU is. I do both rendering and video processing with my Macs. That is why I have Power Macs and Mac Pros. I am the market segment those machines are made for. Mac Pros, the Macs that would have Xeon CPUs in them are not designed for gamers. They are designed for professionals.
@Eric
I think what he is saying is you really wont notice alot of difference unless you use applications that really use up CPU. I do animation and it sure is noticable rendering from one size processor to another.
I agree with you though on this “the Macs that would have Xeon CPUs in them are not designed for gamers. They are designed for professionals.”
If someone wants a gaming computer grab an iMac, those are geared more towards the regular consumer even designers such as myself I use one now at work mainly because its alot cheaper than a mac pro and I dont have to buy a LCD monitor.