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Intel
Product Version Certified: Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5300 Series
Certified For Use With: Check Point NGX
Product Description: The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series is the industry's first Intel® architecture quad-core processor series with extended lifecycle support. It doubles the compute density over previous Intel® dual-core processors, providing breakthrough performance and energy-efficiency for compute-intensive embedded, storage and communications platforms.
Company Description: Intel Corporation, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Visit the Intel Press Room for additional information.
Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
Key Features and Benefits
Intel® Core™ microarchitecture
- Improved performance on multiple application types and user environments.
- Enhanced energy-efficiency enables equipment manufacturers to optimally balance processing capabilities within power and space constraints.
- Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution executes four instructions per core per clock cycle.
- Intel® Advanced Smart Cache allows each core to access full on-die L2 cache.
- Intel® Smart Memory Access maximizes main memory-to-CPU bandwidth and reduces latency.
- Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost executes 128-bit SSE/2/3 instructions in a single clock cycle.
- Intel® Intelligent Power Capability manages run-time power consumption of all execution cores.
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)
- Enables migration of more environments, including 64-bit operating systems and applications, to virtual environments on the same hardware.
- Diverse operating systems and applications can be consolidated quickly and easily.
- Helps reduce cost of hardware migration.
- Greater isolation and security between different applications and operating systems for added protection against corruption.
Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT)
- Highly efficient movement of data to and from applications.
- Can relieve I/O bottlenecks and free CPU for other processing tasks to improve network performance
OPSEC Integration
The Core XL technology scales performance linearly using its patent-pending multi-core load sharing technologies. Along with Check Point's open performance architecture that is designed for high speed security inspection, VPN-1 Power with CoreXL accelerates security by dynamically sharing the security inspection responsibilities between all cores on a multi-core processor. Each core independently runs VPN-1 to offer faster, comprehensive security inspection. This helps customers keep a predictable performance level when new threats appear compared to closed ASIC-based systems that lock customers into hardware refresh cycles that do not align with their evolving business or network needs.