A recently leaked slide reveals one of Intel's upcoming Xeon-branded server chips in 2013.The Xeon E5-2600 V2 is an ivy Bridge-EP processor and will be compatible with mothyerboards featuring the LGA 2011 socket.The Xeon E5-2600 V2 in particular has a 70W TDP(Thermal design power) rating while the highest-end ivy Bridge-EP CPUs will have TDPs of upto 130W.The E5-2600 V2 has 10 physical cores, and with hyperthreading it can handle a maximum of upto 20 threads.Each physical core has access to 256KB L2 cache and the chip has a total of 30MB L3 cache.Further this ivy Bridge-EP processor will support upto 1866MHz DDR3 system RAM.
The Xeon E5-2600 V2 is merely the middle of the road part for intel.The company will be releasing processors that are even higher end than this one.They will have upto 12 physical cores which means up to 24 Threads.And paired with Intel's 22nm manufacturing process and 3D transistors.these will fit in to workstations and server rooms.
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