Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600/5500 Family with the Intel® 5520 Chipset
These processors can be used in single- or dual-socket configurations and are based on 32-nanometer (5600 series) and 45-nanometer (5500 series) process technology. This platform provides the performance, memory, I/O capabilities, and thermal profiles ideal for compute-intensive communications applications.
- Intel® QuickPath Technology: Delivers bandwidth improvement for data-intensive applications.
- Intel® AES New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI): Provides faster, more efficient cryptographic performance (5600 series only).
- Integrated power gates: Allows reduction to idling cores at near-zero power.
- Flexible virtualization: Hardware-assisted virtualization support in processors, and Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) for Directed I/O (Intel® VT-d) in chipsets.
