Although Broadwell-based chips are already on the market and Skylake is rumored for next year, Intel's older Haswell microarchitecture is still working its way into new products. The latest is the Xeon E7 v3 series, which is designed for beefy servers with four or more sockets. Known in techie circles as Haswell-EX, this processor has loads of cores, gobs of cache, and a hybrid memory controller that supports both DDR3 and DDR4 memory.
Like the Xeon E5 v3 processor Scott reviewed last year , the E7 is available with up to 18 cores, 36 threads, and 45MB of last-level cache. While the E5 is limited to dual QPI links, ...
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Xeon E7 v3 boasts Haswell cores, hybrid memory controller
7th May 2015, 06:06
Xeon E7 v3 boasts Haswell cores, hybrid memory controller 
