Intel releases Xeon 6-core processor to accelerate data center energy efficiency upgrade

June 6, 2024, Beijing - Today, the Intel® Xeon® 6 Energy Efficient Core Processor new product launch conference with the theme of "Green to New, Unleashing New Quality Productivity" was held in Beijing . At the conference, Intel launched the first Intel Xeon 6 processor product equipped with energy efficient core (codenamed Sierra Forest), which brings dual performance and energy efficiency improvements for high-density, horizontally scaled workloads. At the same time, Intel joined hands with Kingsoft Cloud, Inspur Information, Nanda General, Memory Technology and other ecological partners to share end-to-end innovative solutions based on this processor, as well as its practical results and application value in many fields.

Wang Zhicong, vice president of Intel's Marketing Group and general manager of China, pointed out that with the advancement and implementation of the country's "dual carbon" goals, accelerating the energy-saving and carbon-reduction transformation of data centers has become an urgent need of the industry. In this regard, Intel is taking active action to renew the computing power base, not only by creating more intelligent, efficient and low-carbon chip products and solutions to meet the current energy consumption challenges of data centers, but also together with the majority of ecological partners to implement sustainable development strategies, accelerate the release of new quality productivity, and inject strong impetus into the high-quality development of the digital economy.

Wang Zhicong, Vice President of Intel Marketing Group and General Manager of Intel China, delivered a speech

As digital transformation accelerates, enterprises are in urgent need of updating their aging data center systems to save costs, achieve sustainable development goals, and maximize the use of physical rack space to create new digital capabilities within the enterprise. The new Intel Xeon 6 platform and processor family are designed to meet these challenges. The energy-efficient core processors are optimized for high core density and high-performance performance required for scale-out tasks, while the performance core processors are optimized for high performance required for compute-intensive and AI workloads. The two architectures are compatible, sharing software stacks and an open ecosystem of software and hardware suppliers.

Ryan Tabrah, Vice President of Intel’s Data Center and AI Group and General Manager of Intel’s Xeon Energy Efficient Core Product Line

Release of new Intel Xeon 6-core processors

The Intel Xeon 6-Core processor is based on Intel 3 process technology. With high core density and excellent performance per watt, it can provide efficient computing power while significantly reducing energy costs. The upgrade of performance and energy efficiency makes it very suitable for demanding high-density, horizontal expansion workloads, including cloud-native applications and microservice network functions, distributed data analysis, content distribution networks, and consumer digital services.

In addition, Intel Xeon 6 Energy Efficient Core processors have significant density advantages. For users who need to iterate products, they can replace old systems and integrate racks at a ratio of 3:1, which will greatly reduce the power consumption of computing clusters and significantly reduce carbon emissions, accelerating the achievement of corporate sustainable development goals. In media transcoding workloads, compared with the second-generation Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel Xeon 6 Energy Efficient Core processors can provide customers with up to 4.2 times the rack performance improvement and up to 2.6 times the performance per watt improvement1. Thanks to the advantages in energy efficiency and physical space, the processor can provide computing power and infrastructure support for many AI innovation projects.

Intel® Xeon® 6-core processor (codenamed Sierra Forest)

In addition to the energy-efficient core products unveiled this time, the Intel® Xeon® 6-core performance processor (code-named Granite Rapids) is expected to be launched next quarter.

For many years, Intel has focused on the needs of the Chinese data center market with product and technology innovation, and provided firm support for users to build efficient and energy-saving new data centers. Liang Yali, vice president of Intel's Marketing Group and general manager of the Industry Solutions and Data Center Sales Department in China, said: "The Intel Xeon 6 Energy Efficient Core processor is designed for cloud-native and large-scale distributed workloads, meeting the needs of cloud data centers for high performance, high density, and high energy efficiency, and effectively reducing the TCO of data centers. We hope to build more innovative end-to-end solutions through cooperation with industry partners to help many companies' digital transformation." At this press conference, many local ecological partners shared their latest solutions based on Intel Xeon 6 Energy Efficient Core products.

Liang Yali, Vice President of Intel Marketing Group and General Manager of Industry Solutions and Data Center Sales in China, delivered a speech

Among them, Kingsoft Cloud released the ninth generation of Kingsoft Cloud's high-efficiency cloud server SE9 equipped with Intel Xeon 6 energy-efficient core processors. The cloud server has been deeply optimized in multiple dimensions such as computing, networking, and storage, which can greatly improve the core density and the operating efficiency of key workloads. The new generation of servers from Inspur Information, which is also based on Intel Xeon 6 energy-efficient core processors, fully releases high-efficiency computing power with its core features of high efficiency and energy saving, security and reliability, flexible architecture, and intelligent openness. While reducing operating costs, it also improves the utilization rate of computing infrastructure with higher density, truly helping to alleviate the energy consumption problems faced by data centers today.

In addition, Nanda General also shared its distributed logical data warehouse solution specifically designed to improve the energy efficiency of data centers. The solution leverages the multi-core capabilities of Intel Xeon 6 energy-efficient core processors and innovative upgrades in process and micro-architecture to help users improve business deployment density and single-node performance. At the same time, based on the unique innovative design of Intel Xeon 6, Memory Technology incorporates the "low-carbon energy-saving" design concept throughout the entire life cycle of its data center servers, promoting the development of high-efficiency data centers with both "high computing power" and "low energy consumption" in all aspects.

Intel Xeon 6 Energy Efficient Core Processor New Product Launch Exhibition Area

With the launch of the first product in the Intel Xeon 6 processor family, Intel is accelerating the construction of an ecosystem based on the Intel Xeon 6 energy-efficient core processor to help companies in many vertical fields upgrade to digitalization. In the future, Intel will continue to be guided by actual market demand, continue to drive ecological innovation with leading product technologies, help the sustainable development of high-efficiency data centers, and accelerate the release of new quality productivity.

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1 See 7T1 Claims at intel.com/processorclaims: Intel® Xeon® 6. Results may vary.