Intel’s biggest enterprise CPU silicon based on its “Haswell” micro-architecture, the Haswell-EX, is a silicon monstrosity, according to its specs.
Built in the 22 nm silicon fab processes, the top-spec variant of the chip physically features 18 cores, 36 logical CPUs enabled with HyperThreading, 45 MB of L3 cache, a DDR4 IMC, and TDP as high as 165W.
Intel will use this chip to build its next-gen Xeon E7 v3 family, which includes 8-core, 10-core, 12-core, 14-core, 16-core, and 18-core models, with 2P-only, and 4P-capable variants spanning the E7-4000 and E7-8000 families.
Clock speeds range between 1.90 GHz and 3.20 GHz.
