Intel Launches ‘Greenlow’: C236 Chipset and Skylake E3-1200 v5 Xeons

One of the recent notable aspects about the Xeon E3 family was the lack of a significant presence with Intel’s Broadwell architecture. A handful of them were released under the E3 v4 nomenclature, with half of them only for embedded solutions – we reviewed the socketed models at the time, but noted through IDF that the main direction these models were going seemed to be towards Intel’s Valley Vista PCIe co-processors, where three of them would be fixed to a PCIe card. For most single socket workstation users, this means a jump from Haswell-based E3 v3 to Skylake-based E3 v5.