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Intel Uncloaks New Xeon Chips for the Data Center Set

Intel has introduced new Xeon chips it expects will become the workhorses for corporate datacenters, saying they're much, much faster than the company's previous processors. The Xeon E5 chips use Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, a next-generation chip design that's been available to desktop users since last year. In tests, the X5 systems were much faster than older Xeon processors because Intel has built I/O processing directly into the chip, Muller said. The chips also speed up encryption, thanks to Intel Advanced Encryption Standard New Instruction technology and that's going to help with systems that need to securely access BMW's cloud applications, Muller said.

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