Intel's next-generation processor platform is designed to deliver improvements in memory bandwidth, throughput speed, power consumption and overall system performance to provide an optimized solution for DP processor-based blade servers. This rich stable of technology improvements addresses the requirements of today's data-hungry systems and software applications that crave performance. This new offering features an advanced Intel Xeon Processor with a 2MB L2 memory cache that reduces or even eliminates system bottlenecks by balancing performance between the processor, I/O and memory.