Intel Crystal Forest-Gladden for embedded systems will debut in the second quarter

We have already mentioned Intel plans to announce in the coming March, the server platform Romley, which will include the CPU family and Xeon E5 chipset series C600 (Patsburg-B). Later in the first half of the year should see the light of another server platform called Crystal Forest-Server, which will also be able to work with processors Xeon E5-2400 E5-2600, but uses a chipset Cave Creek. It is interesting that this chipset will become part of the latest platform and Crystal Forest-Gladden for embedded systems, which are also expected to debut in second quarter.
Intel Platform Intel Crystal Forest-Gladden is focused on the use of blade servers with one or two sockets, as well as a segment-end systems with dense layout, with its membership in addition to the chipset Cave Creek will include special processors on core Sandy Bridge-Gladden. The new set of chips Cave Creek will support Intel QuickAssist technology and four Gigabit Ethernet controllers, plus 20 lanes PCIe Gen2 and virtualization VT-d and VT-c. As for the chips Sandy Bridge-Gladden, according to preliminary information, they will be able to offer one, two or four processing cores and a half to eight megabytes of cache in the third level, and frequency, for example, the quad models will range from 1 GHz to 2.6 GHz band.