Every time Intel announces new Xeon chips, server makers waste no time in announcing new products to take advantage.

Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell have announced faster servers with Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips based on the Broadwell architecture. The chips have up to 22 cores and are significantly faster than the Haswell-based Xeon E5-2600 v3, which shipped last year.

Dell measured a 28 percent improvement in server application performance based on SAP benchmarks on the new chips, compared to performance with the Haswell server chips. Lenovo benchmarks showed a 44 percent CPU improvement. Benchmark results vary depending on the application.

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