Xeon e

Intel has announced the end of life (EoL) for its Xeon E-2274G server CPU, one of many it had released in early November. What is the reason? We discuss it in the following lines.

Intel Xeon E-2274G to be sold without refrigerator as standard

Intel Xeon E-2274G is a 4-core 8-thread processor based on Coffee Lake and focused on business customers. It turns out that Intel has decommissioned this processor, because the refrigerator that is supplied with the purchase of the CPU does not meet the thermal requirements. This means that the refrigerator is not good enough to keep the Intel Xeon E-2274G cool optimally.

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This does not mean that the processor is no longer manufactured. Intel has advised dealers to return their inventory boxes and exchange them for variants where only the chip would be sold without the refrigerator. In this way, it will be the customers who choose which is the best cooling solution.

The Intel Xeon E2274G is a Coffee Lake chip built in the 14nm manufacturing process. It has an 83W TDP and four CPU cores with a base frequency of 4.0 GHz and a boost rate of up to 4.9 GHz.

Intel's notification was already made to all distributors of this chip on November 13. That this happens marks a clear error in the testing phase of the processor, something surprising because Intel has already mastered the use of chips at 14 nm.

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