New opportunities for Chinese manufacturers! Write before Intel Xeon E7 v2 release

"Tenkine server Channel" in late February, Intel is about to release a new generation of Xeon E7 server processors, and the upcoming Xeon E7 V2 processor is a multi-channel server processor that supports critical business applications, according to the tock rule of alternate updates on chip-making technologies and micro-architectures, The new Xeon E7 V2 processor is also a major product update for the multi-channel server processor, representing the highest level of the x86 multiprocessor processor at present.

At the same time, Intel's multiple partners in China will also launch new servers using the E7 v2 processor, such as Huawei, on February 24 to launch a next-generation server conference on the theme "2014 Beyond the Future", with intel® xeon® ®e7-4800 v2, E7-8800 V2 Processor of a variety of server products, but the acquisition of IBM x86 server product line Lenovo, I believe that there will be no small action thereafter. With the new generation of Intel server CPUs, Chinese server vendors have become an integral part of the global marketplace in the face of ongoing challenges from traditional foreign server vendors.

x86 strongest Processor: Xeon E7 v2

In Intel's CPU product line, the Xeon processor makes the main product of the user of the face data center. One of the Xeon is divided into E3, E5 and E7 series products. In 2012, the new E5 processor brought a new performance revolution to data center users, and many partners also launched a number of revolutionary products based on E5. 2014 to strong E7 v2 processor is very compelling, this is also the x86 architecture of a new way to build a new server, on the basis of the novel Xeon E7 v2 processor, in the key business application areas, regardless of reliability, stability and security, and other key technical indicators, will have the ability to be a higher level with RISC architecture minicomputer.

Intel is about to release the E7 V2 processor

The chip code-named "Ivytown" will contain 4.31 billion transistors. The Ivytown chip is based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture unveiled by Intel last year, which replaces the Ivytown based on the Sandy bridge architecture of the Xeon E7 chip. The 15 core chips will probably be used on 4--8 servers, which typically handle high-end computing tasks such as databases and ERP systems. The Ivytown chip runs at a frequency range of 1.4GHz to 3.8GHz, power to 40W to 150W, each core will support multithreading, meaning the Ivytown chip will be able to run 30 threads at the same time.

Large data is faced with the challenges of effective storage and real-time analysis, which has promoted the innovation of product upgrades such as memory calculation. The Intel Xeon E7 V2 is the ideal choice for the memory computing platform. The Intel Xeon E7 V2 processor includes more than 40 features designed to reduce downtime frequency and cost while protecting data integrity. Intel ensures that the running technology (Intel run throaty Marvell) delivers higher system reliability and data integrity while minimizing downtime for critical business loads.

Xeon E7 v2 was released in the first quarter of 2014 with 22NM Technology, based on the top Ivy Bridge-ex architecture, support for Hyper-Threading technology, 37.5MB level three cache, support for AVX directives, three QPi bus, up to 32 PCI 3.0 channels, vt-x/ Vt-d/vt-c Virtualization, Turbo Boost 2.0 Core frequency acceleration, txt trusted execution, seure key security key, OS Guard system Protection, integrated SAS, SATA controller, C602J chipset motherboard. Xeon E7 v2 has a maximum of 15 cores, 37.5MB three cache (2.5MB per core) and supports Hyper-threading, so up to 30 logical cores.

The Ivytown chip is the top-most-core chip in all Intel x86 server chips and could be the fastest-growing server chip for Intel Corporation. Intel 12 Core Xeon E5 V2 chips were released in the third quarter of last year. Xeon E7 v2 processor publishing means opening up a larger market space, bringing newer choices to all open architecture systems, applications, and solution developers in the country, and a more exceptional experience for more business-critical users.

Huawei Intel demonstrates a strong relationship to complete RAS features

Let's turn our attention back to China. As the fastest-growing global server maker, Huawei has followed Intel's launch of its new servers, demonstrating not only a strong relationship with the industry, but also a strong driver for the development of the entire server market. With the introduction of new products from traditional server vendors only internal processor upgrades, Huawei will launch the server products using a variety of Huawei proprietary innovation technology, with the industry's most complete RAS features, to provide customers with a highly competitive key Business Server solutions. Provides the industry's leading experience in computing performance while building new industry benchmarks in the areas of stability, reliability, scalability and management and energy efficiency, and can be widely used in key business applications such as databases, business intelligence analytics, online transactions, and virtualization.

Huawei shows a lot of excellent server products on HCC2013

In the past year, the rapid development of Huawei Server in the global server market has objectively proved the outstanding value of Huawei Server to customers. In the server market report released at the beginning of the Gartner2013 December, Huawei Server was second only to Dell in the first three quarters of the year, in the Chinese market; in the four-quadrant of the Gartner Blade Server Magic, Huawei is the only Chinese manufacturer to enter. In the Server Blade field in a comprehensive way beyond other vendors. Huawei has a strong technology innovation and research and development capabilities, in the server area has a deep technical accumulation and industry experience. The introduction of a new generation of Huawei servers has once again focused the industry's attention on stable, reliable, superior quality servers and solutions.

Lenovo's acquisition of IBM x86 server business is not inconsiderable

It can be said that the traditional server market pattern of foreign domination, is gradually broken by the excellent server manufacturers represented by Huawei, and the market has emerged high-quality and more competitive server products and solutions. But the rapid growth of Huawei in 2014 years could be met with the same resistance from Lenovo, the Chinese server maker. In the past January, Lenovo to IBM's x86 server business has been acquired, in the past when we talked about Lenovo, the general view that this is a consumer-grade manufacturers, its commercial and enterprise-class products are only in China's political mining, collection and other aspects have a certain amount of shipments, is not a truly global enterprise-class it vendor. Today's acquisition of IBM's X86 server business, with IBM's brand advantages and Word-of-mouth accumulation, believe Lenovo in the future of the global server market, will become a force that can not be ignored.

Lenovo announced the acquisition of IBM's X86 server business in January 2014

Prior to acquiring IBM's X86 server business, Lenovo placed the server business in the "PC strategy". But with the advent of the IBMX86-server takeover, including Lenovo's collaboration with EMC on storage in 2013, Lenovo announced the establishment of an enterprise business group before the Spring Festival, which is in stark contrast to Huawei's business layout. If Lenovo in the enterprise-class market The biggest advantage, the first should be built in the PC era of strong channel network, but enterprise-class customers need more services, for Lenovo, how to improve the level of enterprise customer service, delivery capacity is the biggest challenge in the future.

The channel for Wang's Lenovo to break through the technical bottlenecks, the IBM does not earn money in the server business and achieve profitability, nor is it a simple thing. Leading product solutions and technologies are the real needs of buyers, and the acquisition of IBM's X86 server business will help Lenovo to hit the global market, but whether it is more successful than other Chinese server vendors, I'm afraid we have to rely on time to test.

Pole point of view: Every time Intel launches a new server CPU, data center performance increases. With strong resistance to mobile-side expansion and a weaker-than-expected growth in the consumer-level PC market, the enterprise-level market is undoubtedly the biggest expectation of Intel's revenue-keeping. And the use of Intel processors in China server manufacturers also need such a new opportunity to solid own product share and shipments, in the enterprise-class market to maximize growth. It can be said that the introduction of Intel's new processor will bring great changes to the market, the Chinese server manufacturers will be able to get the opportunities, let us wait and see.