The Cloud era Intel enemy ring Xeon E5 power to the king?

After more than a year of continuous discussion of "Sandy Bridge-ep" and "Xeon E5" in the industry, Intel finally unveiled the last week of the Xeon E5 processor. Despite the technical features of Intel's previous releases of Xeon E5 and its partners ' leaked Xeon E5 specifications and test data, the industry has been able to outline the entire line of Xeon E5 product lines, eventually releasing closer to the "cloud" Xeon E5, which still excites the industry.

"With the rapid development of mobile Internet, personalized internet, cloud computing, and the growing number of terminals connected to the Internet, we are pushing a strong support database and data center," said Yang, Intel global vice-president and China president, in E5 press conference. One of the highest performance Intel E5 series Xeon products in the cloud's core computing.

For years, Intel has been like a sophisticated instrument, in Moore's law, such as "gear" driven, never make big mistake, has been sitting on PC supremacy, while in the server field also on the homeopathy, quickly occupied the SME application market, and constantly try to enter the key business market, eating away at IBM's traditional territory, Competitors are locked in the history of the CPU. However, in a world where mobile internet, big data and cloud computing have become a trend, Intel's dominance of the PC era has been broken by the traditional experience of the PC era. The deep application of cloud technology and the contradiction of traditional server is a proposition that intel can't get around.

Therefore, for the Xeon E5 This "answer", there is analysis that the biggest breakthrough in the Xeon E5 is not the change in hardware indicators, but is that Intel changed the Xeon E5 processor positioning, from a simple server processor, into the data center of generalists.

So, in an era when the PC platform is not enough to make a big move, repositioning the E5 Xeon product line can help Intel return to Shong's position under ARM, AMD and IBM?

Log in Data center

With the development of an on-demand cloud computing philosophy and technology into the enterprise market, coupled with the end of the enterprise system renewal cycle, it is already common for small businesses to use cloud service providers for it needs, by accepting services in the cloud rather than acquiring physical servers, Reduce the cost of operational and peacekeeping management of your own deployment data center. For large and medium-sized enterprises, to abandon the high data center deployment of personal belongings investment, to rent cloud computing to provide services, the more energy used in enterprise business innovation and user viscosity maintenance, is a way to reduce investment costs to obtain high profits.

Intel Architecture Division vice President and Data Center Infrastructure Division general manager Boyd Davis

In this trend, the analysis that, if continue to rely on the traditional server concept, 2012 server market sales will be impacted. At this point, Intel also can not afford to keep up with the times, Xeon E5 is the crystallization of this innovation.

The E5 of Intel, which follows Moore's law, is a natural change in the performance of the Xeon. Boyd Davis, vice president of Intel's Architecture division and general Manager of data Center Infrastructure Division, described the performance improvement of this new server processor as high as 80% compared to previous generations, as well as the control of energy efficiency.

In fact, the Xeon E5 is not just about performance, Intel believes that global Internet traffic growth is putting a lot of pressure on the data center, which will help the server respond more quickly to query requests. The Xeon E5 is addressing the storage, network, memory, and security challenges associated with data centers.

Boyd Davis said the new processor would also help increase server utilization through virtualization, which would also reduce energy consumption and cooling costs. Intel has increased the bandwidth of the new chips and reduced the latency of 30%, which will help expand the cloud deployment and deploy more virtual machines.

The first processor to integrate the Pci-express 3.0 bus is the E5 processor. Pci-express technology is mainly used for data transmission between components within the computer and equipment, PCIe 3.0 can move 8GT of data per second (the previous Pci-express 2.0 provides a speed of 5GT per second).

In addition, the processor is the first processor that allows Ethernet controllers and adapters to route I/O directly to the processor cache. The technology reduces DRAM updates, reduces latency, and saves power.

"For Xeon E5, it can provide very good value." You can see it is the best choice for virtualization, Cisco and IBM, and so on, they all think we can provide the best virtualization, is also the best choice for enterprise infrastructure, is also the best choice for the Web, you can see the different network benchmarking is the best choice. Finally, the best choice for high-performance computing, we want our customers to leverage our technology to leverage these applications and technologies on solutions and systems. Boyd Davis said.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)