Also in Q4, the company will expand Xeon D family for microservers with a few new models.
In the first quarter of the next year, Intel is going to launch Xeon E5-1600 v4 and E5-2600 v4 "Broadwell-EP" series for single- and dual-socket systems. New features of Xeon E5-2600 v4 microprocessors will be an increased number of CPU cores, up to 22 cores, and support for DDR4-2400 memory. The E5-1600 v4 processors will have up to 8 cores. Both E5-1600 v4 and E5-2600 v4 will be compatible with existing Grantley-EP platform and C610 series chipset.
Xeon E5-4600 v4 series for quad-socket servers will be launched a quarter later, i.e. in Q2 2016. These parts will be codenamed Broadwell-EP 4S, and their features will be identical to the E5-2600 v4 series. Also in the second quarter of 2016, Intel will release Xeon E7-4800 v4 and E7-8800 v4 "Broadwell-EX" CPUs, compatible with existing Brickland platform.