Intel has a customized version of a Haswell processor made for Amazon. The store uses the processor for its EC2-web service. It goes to a pre-announcement: Amazon has the processor is not in use.
The processor for Amazon is based on an Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 with a clock speed of 2.9 GHz and Turbo Boost to 3.5 GHz, writes the online shop. This processor is still not found in Intel’s processor database. With the processor should be especially heavier web-based services such as online games from the feet can with C4 instances, think Amazon. In the highest configuration, there are 36 virtual cpu’s available with 60GB of ram, and a throughput of 10Gbit/s.
The processor is based on Intel’s Haswell architecture and the processormaker shows that manufacturing on 22nm. Intel makes more custom processors for existing customers: this year alone, would thirty major customers of custom Intel processors. Intel charges including Oracle, eBay and Facebook, to its large customers.
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