By ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, Sep 16, 2008 1638 hrs IST

Intel Corporation has launched seven 45 nanometer (nm)-manufactured Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products. Platforms based on these processors can scale up to 16 processor sockets to deliver servers with up to 96 processing cores inside, claims the company. "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," said R Ravichandran, director (Sales), Intel South Asia. Based on Intel's 45nm high-k process technology and reinvented transistors, the new series delivers performance improvements with lower power consumption. The increase in virtualization performance and advanced virtualization capabilities make Xeon 7400 series-based servers ideal platforms for customers to standardize their virtual infrastructures. The series also offers frequencies up to 2.66 GHz and power levels down to 50 watts, including the first 6-core and x86 compatible 65-watt version. The new series is compatible with Intel's existing Xeon 7300 series platforms and the Intel 7300 chipset with memory capacity up to 256GB.