Xeon-D
At MWC 2024, Intel confirmed that Granite Rapids-D, the successor to Ice Lake-D processors, will come to market sometime in 2025. Furthermore, Intel also provided an update on the 6th Gen Xeon Family, codenamed Sierra Forest, which is set to launch later this year and will feature up to 288 cores designed for vRAN network operators to improve performance in boost per rack for 5G workloads. These chips are designed for handling infrastructure, applications, and AI workloads and aim to capitalize on current and future AI and automation opportunities, enhancing operational efficiency and ownership costs in next-gen applications and reflecting Intel's vision of integrating 'AI Everywhere' across various infrastructures. Intel Sierra Forest: Up to 288 Efficiency Cores, Set for 2H 2024 The first of Intel's announcements at...
Synology Introduces DS1621xs+ - First Desktop x86 DSM NAS with Native 10GbE
Synology is one of the top-tier vendors in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) network-attached storage (NAS) market for SOHOs, SMBs, and SMEs, with QNAP being the other major player. While...
57 by Ganesh T S on 9/11/2020
Supermicro SuperServer E302-9D Review: A Fanless 10G pfSense Powerhouse
Intel launched the Xeon D-2100 SoCs in early 2018, with a feature set making them a fit for several verticals including edge servers, networking, and storage. One of the...
35 by Ganesh T S on 7/28/2020
Intel Launches the Xeon D-1600 Family: Upgrades to Xeon D-1500
Even if you’ve been keeping track of Intel’s Xeon family lines, the Xeon D family could probably give you cause for confusion. The same ‘generation’ of products spans a...
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Intel Reveals Name of Next Generation Xeon D: Hewitt Lake
The Xeon D processor line for Intel has been a combination networking/microserver processor that increased significantly in core count, power, and capability in the previous generation. We now have...
11 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2019
Living On The Edge: Intel Launches Xeon D-2100 Series SoCs
For certain groups of users, Intel’s Xeon D product line has been a boon in performance per watt metrics. The goal of offering a fully integrated enterprise-class chip, with...
23 by Ian Cutress on 2/7/2018
Skylake-D Creeps Out on Intel’s Price List
News about the next update on Intel’s Xeon-D line has been thin. For over a year now, we were expecting to hear what plans were in store for one...
28 by Ian Cutress on 2/1/2018
Intel to Update Xeon D in Early 2018, with Skylake-SP Cores
One of the interesting sub-announcements to come out of Intel’s EPYC benchmark numbers was a slide on the ‘momentum’ of Intel’s new Xeon Scalable Platform using Skylake-SP cores. Alongside...
8 by Ian Cutress on 11/29/2017
The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 41: Let's Talk Server, with Patrick Kennedy
While in San Francisco for AMD’s Ryzen Tech Day, I had a chance to catch up with a good friend by the name of Patrick Kennedy, who runs the...
8 by Ian Cutress on 2/28/2017
Intel Announces Xeon D-1500 Network Series SoCs with QuickAssist, Four 10 GbE Ports
Intel’s Xeon D SoCs and supporting platforms for storage, web hosting and networking applications seem to be getting traction with actual hardware manufacturers as well as end users. This...
12 by Anton Shilov on 2/26/2017
Netgear Brings Broadwell-DE to COTS NAS Units with New 10G ReadyNAS Lineup
Netgear's ReadyNAS lineup was updated towards the end of last year with some units based on the Annapurna Labs ARM-based SoCs. This year, Netgear is targeting SMBs, creative professionals...
17 by Ganesh T S on 9/1/2016
Evaluating Futuremark's Servermark VDI on the Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T
Standardized benchmarks with industry-wide acceptance are a must for evaluating computing systems. These benchmarks may evaluate the system as a whole, or target specific aspects. Vendors such as Futuremark...
18 by Ganesh T S on 9/1/2016
New GIGABYTE Server Motherboards Show Xeon D Round 2
The Xeon D platform, as reviewed by Johan back in June, put together eight Broadwell cores, 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes, dual 10 Gbit Ethernet and USB/SATA control all into...
23 by Ian Cutress on 1/18/2016
Intel's Xeon D Product Family Updated with Storage and Networking-Specific SKUs
Intel's Xeon D has been one of the most exciting platforms to come out of Intel this year. Xeon D has created more excitement in the micro-server / edge...
17 by Ganesh T S on 11/9/2015
ASRock Rack Launches Xeon D Motherboards
Intel's Xeon D SiP (System-in-package) has turned out to be one of the exciting launches this year in the server CPU space. We have already analyzed Xeon D in...
37 by Ganesh T S on 10/30/2015
The Intel Xeon D Review: Performance Per Watt Server SoC Champion?
Eight 14nm Broadwell cores, a shared L3-cache, dual 10 gigabit MAC, a PCIe 3.0 root with 24 lanes and a lot more find a home in Intel's most powerful...
90 by Johan De Gelas on 6/23/2015
Intel Xeon D Launched: 14nm Broadwell SoC for Enterprise
It is very rare for Intel to come out and announce a new integrated platform. Today this comes in the form of Xeon D, best described as the meeting...
38 by Ian Cutress on 3/9/2015
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