We wrote last month about Intel's plans to overhaul its Xeon lineup, in effect forcing us to forget everything we ever knew about its current model naming convention. When the new Skylake-SP Xeons are ...

Application performance obviously uses hardware speed as a baseline, but software optimizations are ultimately where large gains can be realized. It's not uncommon for developers to make an ...

While the consumer CPU world is tangled up in AMD's upcoming ThreadRipper that comes with up to 16C/32T, Intel is wrapping up their next-gen Xeon Platinum line with the flagship Xeon Platinum 8176 ...

Bottom line: In the high-stakes competition for the best server CPUs, Intel's latest entry, the "Sierra Forest" Xeon with a whopping 144 cores is quite the show. However, it's not just about the ...

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation added notes to over 2,600 benchmark results (here’s an example) accusing Intel of cheating one of its tests by tuning compilers mostly from Xeon server ...

Intel has released some benchmarks for its next-gen Core i9 'Cascade Lake-X' processors, which will be arriving next month with a big price cut. The company is also slightly dropping prices on Core ...

In launching its new midrange Xeon 6700P and 6500P server CPUs for enterprise data centers, Intel says its expanding Xeon 6 family can best AMD in performance and enable lower total cost of ownership ...