Intel is looking to modernize data centers with its new Xeon server chips

Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. The Xeon E5-2600 v3 chips are the company’s fastest server chips to date, said Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, at a media event in San Francisco on Monday. The chips are based on the Haswell microarchitecture and will replace the Xeon E5-2600 v2 chips, code-named Romley, which accounted for more than 80 percent of Intel server chips shipped in the most recent fiscal quarter.