Intel's Xeon E5-2687W v3 processor reviewed
 

One of the funny things about Intel's workstation- and server-class Xeon processors is that we kind of think we know what's coming before each new generation arrives. For instance, the new generation of chips known as Haswell-EP is making its debut today, yet the Haswell microarchitecture has been shipping in client systems for over a year. The desktop derivative of this very silicon, Haswell-E, was introduced late last month, too.

What amazes me about the new Xeons, though, is how much more there is to them than one might have expected. Intel's architects and designers have crammed formidable new technologies into these chips in order to allow them to scale up to large ...

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