Colour photograph of Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series die. The die size is 684 mm2 with 2.3 billion transistors. Expandable to include from two to 256 chips per server, the new Intel Xeon processors have an average performance three times that of Intel’s existing Xeon 7400 series on common, leading enterprise benchmarks, and come equipped with more than 20 new reliability features.