Xeon E
Earlier this month Intel quietly launched its W680 chipset, the company's workstation-focused chipset for its 12th Gen Core (Alder Lake) processors. Unlike the current generation of consumer desktop chipsets such as Z690, H670, B660, and H610, the W680 adds the capability to use ECC DRAM, including both DDR5 and DDR4 variants. At present, there haven't been many W680 motherboard announcements, although a couple of vendors, including ASRock Industrial and Supermicro have a few options listed. So we're giving you the lowdown on W680, what it has to offer, and what technologies it brings for users looking to build a workstation-class desktop with Intel's latest Alder Lake architecture.
Oracle Announces Upcoming Cloud Compute Instances: Ice Lake and Milan, A100 and Altra
When the name “Oracle” is thrown around, hardware isn’t typically the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But, like other large tech companies that originally made...
18 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2020CES 2020: Acer ConceptD 700 Workstation For Creators, With Xeon E
Through 2019, all the major hardware providers and OEMs in the spaces we cover have been pushing the idea of the ‘Creator’ – someone who needs a high powered...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/5/2020Intel Recalls Quad Core Xeon CPU Because of Inadequate Stock Cooler
Intel this week recalled one of its boxed processors because the bundled cooling system the company supplied has been found to be insufficient for fully cooling the CPU. For...
27 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2019Intel Launches Xeon-E 2200 Series for Servers: 8 Cores, up to 5.0 GHz
The Xeon-E family from Intel replaced the Xeon E3-1200 parts that were found common place in a lot of office machines and small servers. The Xeon E parts are...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/4/2019The Xeon Entry Quad-Core CPU Review: Xeon E-2174G, E-2134, and E-2104G Tested
A couple of months ago we reviewed a few of the newest six-core Intel commercial CPUs that are also used in low-end servers. Intel has also launched some quad-core...
29 by Ian Cutress on 3/11/2019Intel Has 8-Core Xeon-E at Engineering Sample Stage
One of the interesting omissions from the re-release of Xeon E a couple of weeks ago were the 8-core versions. Intel reiterated its 4-core and 6-core parts, and given...
19 by Ian Cutress on 11/26/2018Intel Xeon E Six-Core Review: E-2186G, E-2176G, E-2146G, and E-2136 Tested
Despite having officially launched back in July, Intel’s Xeon E desktop platform has yet to see the light of day in systems casually available to users or small businesses...
51 by Ian Cutress on 11/5/2018ASUS Launches WS C246 PRO: 4 PCIe 3.0 x16, Two M.2, Optional SAS RAID
ASUS has introduced its first Intel C246-based motherboard for Intel’s Xeon E processors. The WS C246 PRO platform is aimed at rather serious machines that use up to four...
21 by Anton Shilov on 7/27/2018HP Unveils Z2 Mini G4 SFF Workstations: Up to Six-Core Xeons, Pro GPUs
HP this week upgraded its miniature Z2 Mini workstation with the latest Intel’s Core and Xeon E processors with up to six cores as well as professional-grade graphics cards...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/20/2018ASRock Launches C246M WS Micro-ATX Motherboard for Xeon E CPUs
ASRock Rack has announced one of the industry’s first Micro-ATX motherboards for Intel’s new Xeon E processors for entry-level servers and workstations. The C246M WS platform is aimed at...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/16/2018Dell Announces Latest Precision Entry Level Workstations: Powerful 1U Rack and SFF Desktops
Today Dell has introduced new and updated lineups in their Precision entry-level workstation lineup. In this case, Dell has brought forth the Precision 3930 Rack (1U workstation), Precision 3630...
18 by Joe Shields on 7/12/2018Intel Launches Coffee Lake Xeon E (Entry): The Next-Gen E3-1200
Today Intel is announcing the Xeon E family of processors. The Xeon E-2100 stack of CPUs will replace the previous generation E3 v6 processors, following Intel's renaming of their...
44 by Ian Cutress on 7/12/2018iBASE Lists C246 Motherboards for Intel Xeon E CPUs
iBASE has published specifications of its upcoming MB995VF-C246 motherboard aimed at entry-level/embedded servers and workstations that will support Intel’s upcoming (but not yet announced) Xeon E processors. The mainboard...
20 by Anton Shilov on 7/11/2018Intel Leaks Model Numbers of Entry Level Xeon E-2000 CPUs
Intel has published model numbers of its upcoming Xeon E processors based on the Coffee Lake-S core. The new chips will be used in entry-level servers and workstations and...
5 by Anton Shilov on 5/30/2018Intel Expands 8th Gen Core: Core i9 on Mobile, Iris Plus, Desktop, Chipsets, and vPro
The march from Intel for everything to be under the ‘8th Gen Intel Core’ branding is now at its climax: today is the official launch of several new 8th...
124 by Ian Cutress on 4/3/2018Intel Xeon E3-1200 v7 Will Become Xeon Entry (Xeon E), Possible Intel with Radeon Graphics Launch
The last 12 months have seen an upheaval of Intel’s enterprise processor naming scheme, with a distinct mix of positive and negative responses. In previous years, Intel followed a...
8 by Ian Cutress on 11/28/2017