Workload Optimized Intel® Xeon® D processors for edge network, control plane and mid-range storage solutions requiring high per core performance.
High Density System-on-a-Chip for lower power and space constrained solutions with built-in technology options including Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT), Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) and integrated Intel® Ethernet.
As communication service providers, enterprise IT, and cloud service providers seek to speed new service delivery and handle exponential growth in the number of users accessing their services, it is essential that they optimize infrastructure for density and cost, both in the data center and at the network edge. Inefficient data center scaling drives up space and cost, and increases environmental impact, while fixed function, proprietary devices at the network edge hinder the ability of IT to rapidly deploy and manage new services. Intel® Xeon® D processors offer options for infrastructure optimization, by bringing the performance and advanced intelligence of Intel® Xeon® processors into dense, lower-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. They can be deployed for a variety of workloads - from the data center to the intelligent edge - in network solutions, wireless base stations, mid-range storage solutions, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), dynamic web serving, dense/rugged environments outside the data center, and more. And they can run the same instruction set as more robust Intel® Xeon® processors to provide software consistency from the data center to the network edge.
As network traffic volume and complexity increases, operators must both optimize their infrastructure and increase value-added services to drive revenue. This requires more compute capability at all points of the network including the edge. These highly scalable, compact, and energy efficient SoCs are an ideal solution for equipment makers seeking attractive performance per watt. The high level of integration including up to four integrated 10 Gb Ethernet ports, Intel® QAT and support for hardware-assisted virtualization makes this class of Intel® Xeon® D processors an attractive option for wireless base stations, routers and switches, security and network appliances, and for the build-out of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
Intel® Xeon® D-1600 processors offer new levels of workload-optimized support for both mid-range storage and network solutions. This customer-oriented and highly-optimized design offers up to a 1.5X improvement in base frequency compared to the previous generation of Intel® Xeon® D-1500 processors, network series. Combined with the advanced capability integration of up to 40 Gbps with Intel® Ethernet and up to 30 Gbps of cryptography/compress/decompress offload with Intel® QAT, the new Intel® Xeon® D-1600 processor delivers new levels of performance for dense computing environments. These new processors offer an effective upgrade path for solutions already using the Intel® Xeon® D-1500 processor - both the standard and network series. However, the network series offers the easiest migration path because of BGA package pin compatibility with the Intel® Xeon® D-1600 processor.
Intel® Xeon® D-1500 processors - both standard and network series - address other low-power, high-density infrastructure needs, including those with higher floating point performance workload requirements, while offering additional product options with industrial extended temperature support. Available with up to 16 cores and 128 GB of addressable memory, Intel® Xeon® D-1500 processors have an integrated platform controller hub (PCH), integrated I/O, integrated 10 Gigabit Intel® Ethernet ports, and a thermal design point (TDP) of 20 watts to 65 watts.
With Intel® Platform Storage Extensions, Intel® Xeon® D processors offer new intelligence for dense, low-power storage solutions that can be deployed in or out of the data center. Non-transparent bridging (NTB) enables high-speed connectivity among Intel® Xeon® processor-based platforms for failover support; Asynchronous DRAM Self- Refresh (ADR) helps to protect data in the event of a power outage; and Intel® QuickData Technology offloads memory accesses to the SoC for fast data movement with low processor overhead.
Intel® Xeon® D processors provide excellent performance and software compatibility in a low-power SoC, for microservers that can efficiently process lightweight, hyperscale workloads in cloud service provider data centers and in dedicated hosting company data centers. These SoCs offer exceptional node performance, up to 12 MB of last level cache, and support for up to 128 Gigabytes of high-speed DDR4 memory, and are ideal for emerging lightweight hyper-scale workloads, including memory caching, dynamic web serving, and dedicated hosting.
Includes 2-16 cores, multiple integrated ports of Gigabit Intel® Ethernet, plus support for up to 128 GB of memory. Also includes L1 cache (32K data, 32K instructions per core), L2 cache (256K per core), LLC cache (1.5 MB per core), Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology).
Enables dense, low power system designs with thermal design points ranging from about 20W to 65W.
Hardware acceleration for compute-intensive workloads, such as cryptography and data compression, by offloading the functions to a specialized logic engine (integrated into the chipset), freeing the processor to focus on other workload operations.
Delivers near-native compute and I/O performance in virtualized data centers, network infrastructure, and cloud computing, with advanced monitoring of cache and memory bandwidth for better service level and infrastructure management.
Provides high system reliability and data integrity with support for error correction code (ECC) memory, single device data correction (SDDC), memory demand and patrol scrubbing, and much more.
Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) provides integrated support for fast, low-overhead encryption and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) provides platform verification (through authenticated boot) to enable strong security with reduced performance impact.
Includes Intel® Node Manager (Intel® NM) Base for adaptive power management.
Enables fast data movement and high availability through integrated support for non-transparent bridging (NTB), asynchronous DRAM self-refresh (ADR), and Intel® QuickData Technology, which provides a direct memory access (DMA) engine within the SoC.
Intel x86 64-bit Software Support Helps to ensure broad and scalable application compatibility across infrastructure.