With ecological preservation and responsible conduct within the tech industry never far from the news, Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, has this week made moves to further increase its “energy-efficient performance lead” by introducing two brand new low-voltage processors.
Intel Corp. releases two new performance- and green-conscious Xeon server processors. Credit: Intel.
Designed for inclusion in servers and workstations that function at 50 watts (or 12.5 watts per core and frequencies as high as 2.50GHz), the new 45nm Quad Core Xeon L5400 processor series is lauded as taking advantage of Intel’s unique 45nm manufacturing strengths and revamped transistor formula to deliver enhanced performance while reducing levels of power consumption.
Maintaining its green ethos in terms of technology mixed with conservation, Intel offers that its new series sustains the low 50-watt thermal envelope while “benefiting companies with power-constrained, high-compute density environments,” thanks to as much as a 25 percent speed increase and a 50 percent larger cache size than its previous low-voltage Quad Core Xeon processors.
“Using Intel’s hafnium-infused high-k metal gate transistors has allowed our quad-core 45nm low-voltage server chips to attain new heights in power-efficient performance,” trumpeted Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Server Platforms Group. “These chips deliver the speed needed while using meagre amounts of energy.”
The two new 50 watt quad-core chips arrive as the 2.33GHz L5410, and the 2.50GHz L5420, both of which feature a unique 12MBs of on-die cache and dedicated 1333MHz front side bus (FSB). The L5410 and L5420 are already supported by a host of industry heavyweights including the likes of ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Quanta and will cost $320 USD and $380 USD respectively in orders of 1,000.
And Intel’s green drive isn’t finished with the L5400 series, the chipmaker is also expected to begin shipping a dual core low-voltage processor in Q2 that offers a 40-watt rating and a clock speed of 3.0GHz, 6MB cache, and a 1333MHz FSB.
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