Its other specifications include two Intel Xeon Scalable 10-core CPUs and a custom, entirely passive cooling system, ensuring your listening pleasure isn’t disturbed by fan noise and airflow.

The Sierra Forest Xeon chips will include these features: 2.5x better rack density and 2.4x higher performance per watt1. Support for 1S and 2S servers, with up to 144c per CPU and TDP as low as 200W.

The nice thermals come at a small price; the system threw as much as 72 decibels of sounds, primarily from the fans built into the system. For a dual-Xeon workstation, though, it was fine.

The semiconductor giant discloses that its 288-core Xeon 6900E server CPU won’t be ‘broadly deployed’ through OEMs and will instead be targeted at cloud customers with custom chip needs ...