Intel has introduced the Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family (Ivy Bridge-EP), which is based on Intel's 22nm process technology, contributing to energy efficiency improvements of up to 451% when compared to the previous generation, according to the vendor. The processor family also features up to 12 cores and delivers up to 50% more performance across variety of compute intensive workloads. The Intel Xeon processors E5-2600 v2 product family will power the new IBM NeXtScale System, a high-density, flexible computing platform designed for high-demand workloads such as analytics, technical computing and cloud delivery. Intel's newest processor family also will be used in IBM's new x3650 M4 HD high-density storage server, as well as all of IBM's two-socket systems including System x racks and towers, Flex System, iDataPlex, and BladeCenter offerings.

Intel has unveiled its second-generation 64-bit Intel Atom C2000 product family of system-on-chip (SoC) designs for microservers and cold storage platforms (Avoton) and for entry networking platforms (Rangeley). These new SoCs are the company's first products based on the Silvermont micro-architecture, the new design in its 22nm Tri-Gate SoC process delivering increases in performance and energy efficiency. Manufactured using Intel's 22nm process technology, the Intel Atom C2000 product family features up to eight cores, a range of 6-20W TDP, integrated Ethernet and support for up to 64GB of memory, eight times the previous generation.

Intel has introduced the fourth-generation Intel Core processor family, providing responsive, secure and powerful performance for consumers to create and consume content. With power levels as low as 6W in scenario design power, Intel is enabling thinner, lighter, cooler, quieter and fanless designs. The fourth-generation Intel Core processors are capable of delivering up to 15% better performance than the previous generation, the vendor said. Consumer and business systems based on quad-core versions of fourth-generation Intel Core processors are now available. Summer availability is planned for 2-in-1s ultrabooks, portable all-in-ones and traditional notebooks and desktops. New mobile business products with fourth-generation Intel Core vPro will be available later this year. The fourth-generation Intel Core processors can bring an 50% improvement in battery life over the previous generation in active workloads when watching movies or surfing the Internet, and two to three times improvement in standby battery life. For some systems coming to market this year, over nine hours of active use battery life or 10-13 days of standby with fresh data on a single charge is expected. To achieve this breakthrough, Intel significantly reduced the CPU power to as low as 6W and also worked across the system for power optimization. These improvements range from system-on-a-chip (SoC) and platform level technologies to Intel's 22nm process technology.