Intel details upcoming 'Jasper Forest' Xeon processors

Ahead of IDF 2009, which will kick off next week, Intel has provided more information regarding 'Jasper Forest', its upcoming low-power Xeon processors for embedded, communications and storage applications. Coming in early 2010, the Jasper Forest CPUs are manufactured on 45nm technology, have from 1 to 4 cores, are based on the Nehalem architecture and will have a TDP between 23W and 85W.

The new chips feature an integrated memory controller and PCIe 2.0 I/O (16 lanes), Direct Memory Access (DMA), non-transparent PCIe bridging which allows multiple systems to seamlessly connect over a PCIe link and hardware RAID acceleration.