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Thanks to the new Intel 22-nanometer manufacturing process, the top Xeon E7 v2 processor line has a mind-blowing 4.3 billion transistors. That's right: 4.3 billion.
1947 - 2014.
Power consumption has becoming an increasing concern for IT. Most organizations are striving for greener IT operations. The 3.4GHz Xeon E7-8893 v2 has a maximum thermal design power (TDP) of 155 watts, more economical 2.3GHz Xeon E7-2870 v2 uses a more modest 105 watts.
One of the most significant changes in these new processors is a huge increase in addressable memory. Servers with Xeon E7 v2 processors can address as much as 4TB of RAM—twice the amount supported by the previous generation. The new processors support 64GB DIMMs, with 24 DIMMs per socket. The Xeon E7 v1 used 32GB DIMMs and had a maximum of 16 DIMMs per sock
The 20 versions of the Intel Xeon E7 v2 processor provide numerous cores; choose from 6, 8, 10, 12, or 15. All the Xeon E7 v2 processors support Hyper-Threading with two threads per core. The cores are arranged on the chip in three columns of five cores each.
Xeon E7 v2 processors support all the advanced features that you have come to expect from Intel: Turbo Boost Technology, Hyper-Threading, Virtualization Technology, Extended Page Tables, Enhanced SpeedStep, and Thermal Monitoring.

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