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At the Australian launch of Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v3 yesterday, Chipzilla's local folks popped up a slide trumpeting the fact that the chip now comes in 35 special flavours. Your correspondent asked Intel to name a few, which prompted a response that pre-launch debate considered whether or not to include the slide because …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Google version, with the wide and often under-utilized SSE units removed.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I think it's approvals

    I suspect there are a great number of versions certified for the many, many different mil-spec, gov-spec, intel-spec and other spec organisations of the world.

    The chip wil be basically the same, but the validation process will be different.

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  3. Ben Bonsall

    Fridge Edition - Ultra-high power consumption edition for monitoring when the milk is running low, and blinking a little red light to remind you to buy some. Luckily it comes with a fridge attached for cooling.

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  4. Primus Secundus Tertius

    Software Resistant

    Software resistant version: runs the same Intel/Windows/NSA software (with the same bugs/features) no matter what version of Linux/BSD/Other you try and load.

    Great for standards compliance!

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    I doubt...

    Intel would ever have a fanless version...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Joke

      Re: I doubt...

      Of course not. Even Apple has fans

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  6. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge
    Happy

    Will they be doing one in strawberry flavour?

    ...Sorry, did I misunderstand the question again..

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  7. Measurer

    Itanium hardware emulation version?

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  8. bEEZ

    Are You After This?

    http://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-briefs/xeon-e5-brief.pdf

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  9. MyffyW Silver badge
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    Close with Z80 - but what about the 6502?

    Or better yet how about one which spins up half a million Z80 instances, half a million 6502, and none of those instances would talk to each other?

    All you'd need then would be a stand-off with Russia and it would be like 1983. Oh wait...

    I'll get my Bananarama coat.

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    1. Simon Brady
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      Re: Close with Z80 - but what about the 6502?

      "Or better yet how about one which spins up half a million Z80 instances, half a million 6502, and none of those instances would talk to each other?"

      Just the ticket for anyone wanting to virtualise half a million Commodore 128s (and who doesn't?).

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  10. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    A power PC version?

    So you have some choice of the rack for your back.

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  11. Random Yayhoo
    Paris Hilton

    The Paris Edition

    ...with graphics sans CPU

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  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Fapenning Edition, automatically downloads nudie pics from 4 chan

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