"The growth of connected devices and demand for more digital services has created new opportunities for information and communication technology," said Diane Bryant, general manager of Intel's Data Center Group. "By bringing Xeon processor performance to a low power SoC, we're delivering the best of both worlds and enabling our customers to deliver exciting new services."
Intel says the device is the third generation of 64bit SoCs for microserver and associated applications. It claims up to 3.4 times the performance per node, compared to its Atom based second generation 64bit SoC and 1.7 times better performance per Watt.
Two SoCs are available initially: the 2GHz D-1540, with eight dual threaded cores; and the 2.2GHz quad D-1520, with four dual threaded cores. Both consume 45W and feature dual integrated 10GbE, as well as 24 PCIe 3 lanes, eight PCIe 2 lanes and four USB ports. With up to 12Mbyte of L3 cache, both SoCs can address up to 128Gbyte.
There are more than 50 systems currently in design, says Intel, with approximately 75% targeted at network, storage and IoT applications.
