Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600/5500 Series with the Intel® 5520 Chipset

Formerly Tylersburg/Westmere-EP (Nehalem/Westmere-EP + Tylersburg-36D)

These processors can be used in single- or dual-socket configurations and are based on 32nm (5600 series) and 45nm (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-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 for Directed I/O (VT-d) in chipset.

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