Core To Vendors’ Love For Intel’s Fourth-Gen Xeon Chip Are Sustainability, Power
Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Nvidia and other manufacturers have built the chip into products that will be coming out soon, with many hailing the fourth-generation processor as a step forward for computing power and sustainability goals.
Intel’s new fourth-generation Xeon processer has set off a gold rush with no fewer than a dozen server vendors unveiling new devices that put the scalable chip at the heart of their next-generation builds.
Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo each have said they all have server lines that incorporate the chip in majorlaunches, and even smaller players such as Atos, Tyan and Lanner Electronics have unveiled products built with the chip inside.
Their enthusiasm is two-fold. First, Intel’s new chip is driving leaps forward in the use of computing power in the data center. Micron Technology said the chip will eliminate bandwidth bottlenecks for “years to come”
Meanwhile, Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang praised the chip for the impact it could have on the sustainability goals of the data center, thanks to the accelerated computing capabilities at work in Nvidia’s product withIntel’s fourth-generation processor inside.
“Computing demand is growing exponentially. Data centers already use 4 percent of the world’s electricity, up from 1 percent five years ago. This growth isn’t sustainable,” Huang said. “One Nvidia accelerated server can reduce the processing time and energy and cost by x factors.”
Meanwhile, Supermicro is billing its new servers as a way for customers to reach environmental goals, adding that Intel’s built-in accelerators can result in more efficient use of computing power.
After some delay, Intel Tuesday debuted its fourth-generation Xeon Scalable processors, code-named Sapphire Rapids, calling it the highest-performing data center processor family yet.
The company, in a live product launch, also unveiled the Intel Xeon CPU Max series GPUs, code-named Sapphire Rapids HBM, and the Intel Data Center GPU Max series high-density processors.
Following is a list of manufacturers including the processor in new products.
AIC said its newest generation of servers incorporating Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon processors gives customers superior processing performance and energy efficiency for enterprise workloads, including storage, AI and high-performance computing.
The new line of AIC servers can accelerate PyTorch real-time inference performance by up to 10X using Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions compared with AIC’s previous generation of servers.
Atos unveiled three server units that will rely on Intel’s new chip in its latest generation of BullSequana edge servers.
The EX series gives customers interchangeable CPUs and GPUs, the company said. The devices are designed for deploying applications with large computing demands at the edge such as AI and virtual reality gaming, it said.
Atos also has a new line of x86 servers—BullSequana SH—that each have two fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors built in. Atos said given its security, scalability and reliability capabilities, BullSequana SH can meet the demands of enterprises, cloud providers and hyperscalers.
Cisco’s newest UCS M7 servers that incorporate Intel’s new chip have a 4-to-1 consolidation ratio compared with the company’s previous generations of UCS servers, reducing the number of systems required and giving users the ability to do more with less, the company said.
The new C-Series and X-Series servers give users more performance and scalability. They also provide application acceleration by supporting the Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series in its UCS X-Series Fabric technology. It enables customers to support a wider range of compute-intensive workloads, Cisco said
Intel’s fourth-generation Xeon chips will power Dell’s 16th generation of PowerEdge servers that can tackle workloads between clouds and at the edge, said founder, Chairman and CEO Michael Dell.
