Intel's amplification move: the new process and energy efficiency cores are put together, and the Xeon 6 with 144 cores has doubled the performance

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Today, Intel introduced Intel ® Xeon ® 6 Efficient Core processors, with up to 144 cores per CPU and up to 3x higher rack density1, delivering high performance, high density, energy efficiency, and low TCO for a wide range of cloud-scale workloads, making them the most efficient choice for data centers.

With the explosion of artificial intelligence applications such as enterprise business cloudification and large language models, the demand for computing power is growing rapidly, and unprecedented requirements are being placed on data centers, including stronger computing power, larger storage capacity, and higher network bandwidth. At the same time, the increase in the scale of computing power also brings higher and higher energy and other costs to data centers. Driven by the "dual carbon" goal, data centers urgently need to achieve the dual goals of increasing computing power and reducing energy consumption through continuous transformation, while maintaining low-carbon operations.

Helping data centers cope with growing and changing demands, Intel has been at the forefront of industry innovation. At the Intel Vision 2024 Industry Innovation Conference in April this year, Intel announced that it will rebrand its Xeon processors and launch the new Intel ® Xeon ® 6 processors. The processor will be available in two microarchitecture versions, P-core and E-core, to meet the diverse needs of users for performance and energy efficiency.

Today, Intel announced the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 processor, the first product to be built on the Intel 3 process, marking a quantum leap forward for data center-class computing platforms. With higher core density, superior performance and power efficiency, and higher rack density, the new processors are ideal for cloud-native applications, distributed computing, and other cloud-scale workloads, and will undoubtedly bring a revolutionary technology upgrade to data centers, giving them the power to meet the challenges of the future.

Combine energy efficiency with high throughput

Meet the needs of diversified workloads and high computing power

At present, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies are accelerating the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of industries, so that data centers hope to improve the scale of computing power, supply capacity and resource utilization efficiency by increasing the number of cores and memory bandwidth as much as possible in a limited space, meet the needs of users for distributed horizontal expansion, containerization, and mixed deployment of business for multiple computing power, and realize efficient and flexible application system construction by supporting microservices, support increasingly rich new workloads, and meet SLA requirements.

Fully optimized for cloud-native and massively distributed workloads is what Intel ® Xeon ® 6 Efficient Core processors are designed to do. The 6700E series has up to 144 cores per CPU and up to 288 cores in the 6900E series in the future. As we all know, the higher the number of cores, the stronger the computing power, and the high-density cores enable the processor to maintain high stability even under high loads, which in turn brings unique advantages to computing workloads with more dynamic scheduling and concurrency characteristics in cloud-native applications such as microservices.

In addition, Intel ® Xeon ® 6 processors feature increased memory bandwidth, rich I/O, and built-in acceleration engines to deliver higher performance and energy efficiency for cloud-scale workloads that require high-parallel processing and high throughput, such as web hosting, horizontally scalable databases, data analytics, and AI, while maintaining consistent performance even under peak loads.

Energy-efficient AI for cloud-scale workflows

More and more businesses are incorporating AI technology into their business processes and customer experiences, such as enhancing customer service through natural language processing (NLP) technology and introducing intelligent recommendation systems into e-commerce platforms. With the explosion of large language model applications, the proportion of AI inference workload is increasing. ® Intel Xeon ® 6 processors are powered by Intel ® AVX2 and support for VNNI and BF16/FP16 for a wide range of models such as image classification, object detection, natural language processing, recommender systems, and more. It efficiently executes AI inference tasks on the same core that handles cloud-scale workloads; AI capabilities are available out-of-the-box with support for widely used software libraries and frameworks. In addition, the introduction of Intel ® Xeon ® 6 efficiency core processors also provides a seamless path for enterprises to migrate their business and upgrade their technology.

Compute more energy efficiently, with higher rack density

Lower TCO and carbon footprint

As data centers continue to scale and computing demands grow, so do the cost of electricity and carbon emissions. Driven by factors such as rapid market changes and green development, data center operators are faced with the urgent task of controlling power consumption and carbon emissions, reducing the overall operational carbon footprint, and reducing operating costs (TCO) as a key goal.

Adopting a high-density rack configuration is one of the key strategies to improve data center hashrate density and energy efficiency, not only to enhance computing power, but also to improve the data center ecosystem. Research shows that more than one-third of data center operators have significantly increased their rack density over the past three years. At the same time, no longer simply pursuing power usage efficiency (PUE), but focusing on the overall improvement of usage efficiency, combined with the reduction of computing energy consumption, so as to maximize computing power efficiency, has formed an industry consensus.

® Intel Xeon ® 6 processors feature a high density of cores that dramatically increases rack density — replacing 200 2nd Gen Intel ® Xeon ® processor-based system racks with just 66, meaning the same workloads can be handled in less space and lower power consumption.

® Intel Xeon ® 6 Efficiency Core processors are built with multiple acceleration engines to further improve energy efficiency, while optimized power modes and telemetry enable servers to deliver scalable performance as resource usage increases, ensuring a near-linear relationship between power and performance. For performance-critical workloads, this means more efficient use of power to get the job done quickly under high loads. For scalable deployments common in cloud computing or shared computing environments, multi-dimensional energy efficiency management techniques mean that when the load is low, the server consumes only the necessary power, reducing costs when instances are underutilized.

Driven by the "dual carbon" goal and the digital economy, Intel ® Xeon ® 6 Efficiency Core processors will become a powerful tool for data centers to reduce costs and increase efficiency due to their performance and energy efficiency advantages, helping to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions, build competitive advantages, and accelerate the green and low-carbon transition.

Gather the power of ecology

Help enterprises upgrade digitally

On the occasion of the release of new products, Intel also collaborates with ecosystem partners, including ODMs, OEM server vendors, cloud service providers, enterprise-level independent software and solution providers, and open source communities, based on Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy-efficient core processors, to adapt and optimize various types of workloads, provide innovative solutions for customers in the industry, and provide a stable path for data centers to improve capabilities and reduce efficiency and costs.

Kingsoft Cloud released the ninth-generation cloud server high-efficiency SE9, leading a new era of cloud computing energy efficiency with Intel, deeply optimized for computing, networking, and storage, supporting up to 256 vCPUs in a single instance for the first time, doubling the core density. Compared with the main online models, the integer computing performance of the whole machine is improved by up to 3 times2, the cost performance of the package of the same specification is improved by more than 60%3, and the performance of the Nginx and transcoding machines and the read and write performance in Redis service scenarios are improved by up to 2.6 times4, 3.55 times, and 2.8 times6, respectively.

Inspur Information has launched the G8 meta-brain server using Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy-efficient core processors, covering three general-purpose servers of all-scenario, high-density computing and high-energy efficiency, with system design as the core, with four characteristics: high efficiency and energy saving, agile openness, security and reliability, and native intelligence, which is 200%7 higher than the G6 platform performance, and more than 230%8 performance per unit of energy consumption.

The energy-efficient and energy-efficient distributed logical data warehouse built by NTU General Motors makes full use of the multi-core capabilities of Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy-efficient core processors to improve service deployment density and single-node performance, improving Gbase 8a MPP performance by 182%9 and energy efficiency ratio by 135%10, helping to build green and sustainable data centers.

Memory Technology has launched a low-carbon and energy-saving server, which adopts a modular design to achieve a low-carbon and energy-saving design throughout the life cycle. 76%11 less embodied carbon and 53%12 less operational carbon compared to the second-generation Xeon platform. Its BenchSEE score is more than 6 times higher than the Tower and Rack Server Energy Efficiency Limits and Ratings Level 1 (45)13.

Embracing the new opportunities of data center cloudification and AI applications, and providing an efficient, green and low-carbon computing power foundation for high-quality development is an important direction for computing infrastructure to move towards a new era of intelligence. ® Intel Xeon ® 6 Efficiency Core processors are innovative architectures that help data centers respond to the changing business environment by improving performance, energy efficiency, and reducing costs, enabling them to deliver richer and better services to their users. In response to the high computing power requirements of AI workloads, Intel plans to launch a higher performance P-core version this year. With the compatibility of the E-core and P-core of Intel ® Xeon ® 6 processors, a single platform delivers superior AI performance, energy efficiency, and cloud scalability to help data centers efficiently meet the ever-increasing and diverse demands.

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Exegesis:

1. See [7N1]:intel.com/processorclaims ® ® at the following URL for details. Results may vary.

2. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy-efficient core processor press conference, Kingsoft Cloud gave a speech and shared

3. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, Kingsoft Cloud gave a speech and shared

4. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, Kingsoft Cloud gave a speech and shared

5. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, Kingsoft Cloud gave a speech and shared

6. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, Kingsoft Cloud gave a speech and shared

7. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, and Inspur information speech sharing

8. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, and Inspur information speech sharing

9. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, and NTU General Motors gave a speech and shared.

10. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy-efficient core processor press conference, and NTU General gave a speech and shared.

11. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, and the memory technology speech sharing.

12. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, and the memory technology speech sharing.

13. The data comes from the Intel ® Xeon ® 6 energy efficiency core processor press conference, and the memory technology speech sharing.

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