At the top end of the Intel Xeon portfolio is the Xeon E7 family, codenamed Ivy Bridge-EX, which will hit the market in the fourth quarter of this year.
“You used to need a mini-computer to be able to put 12 Terabytes of memory into a system and now we can do it with a single 8 socket server,” Graff said.
The Xeon E7 has triple the memory capacity of its predecessor and will benefit from new reliability features that Intel is branding as “Run Sure” technology.
“This will be a big jump over our currently shipping products,”
Lisa Graff, Intel Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Enterprise Segment Group, said in a media briefing.
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