Intel has unveiled the Xeon processor E7 v2 family. The processors deliver new capabilities to process and analyze large, diverse amounts of data, says the chipmaker. 

The Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family has triple the memory capacity of the previous generation processor family. In-memory analytics places and analyzes an entire data set (such as an organization’s entire customer database) in the system memory rather than on traditional disk drives, according to Intel.  

Built for up to 32-socket8 servers, with configurations supporting up to 15 processing cores and up to 1.5 terabytes of memory per socket, the new processor family achieves twice the average performance of the previous generation, says Intel.

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