Intel SoC for the server space: Xeon D

[NumLock21]

Built on the 14nm process, Xeon D will be the very first SoC (System on Chip) from Intel to have the Xeon brand, targetting at the enterprise market for hyperscale workloads. It's also the 2nd CPU based on the  Broadwell archtecture besides the Core M. The CPUs will range from 2 cores all the way up to 8 cores, in total of up to 9 SKUs, with one under the Pentium name. It will have your typical instuction sets for virtualization like VT-D/VT-X as well as others like TXT, TSX and AVX2. It will support both DDR3 well as DDR4. The very first Xeon D will be out around Q2 2015 with limited networking features, even though it has integrated 10GbE, with the come out around Q3 2015. Xeon D 8 cores will have a TDP of 45w. The Pentium will be a dual core with a TDP of less than 20w. Intel has already shipped samples to some of their clients and they're already testing with it. Xeon D is Intel answer to AMD's SoC code name Seattle under the Opteron brand, which features up to 8 64bit ARM Cortex-57 cores, dual 10GbE, a cryptographic co processor, and support for DDR3 as well as DDR4 with ECC support and more.

 

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-processor-d-family.html

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2014/2014112501_Preliminary_Intel_Xeon_D_lineup.html

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2367155/intel-begins-sampling-third-generation-14nm-xeon-d-soc

http://www.greendatacenternews.org/articles/share/753581/

 

 

AMD SoC

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8362/amds-big-bet-on-arm-powered-servers-a1100-revealed

http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/amd-opteron-seattle-arm-soc,1-2105.html

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/amd-shows-off-the-guts-of-its-first-arm-chip-for-the-server/

[flibberdipper]

This is actually kinda neat. If the bottom end Xeon D is cheap enough, it would be tempting to use as a home file server running Windows 8 or something (I use this program since it's easy to use, pretty damn configurable, and you can run it on pretty much any computer).

[Spongy141]

Damn, Broadwell just keeps looking better and better.

[QueenDemetria]

Xeon Demetria, I want.