It seems like Lenovo has started quietly launching a yet unreleased product from Intel, the Intel Xeon E 6300 series. These are not to be confused with the Intel Xeon Gold 6300 series products from the Ice Lake Xeon (3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable) as Lenovo is advertising these new processors in the same platforms as the Intel Xeon E-2400 series.
Lenovo Updates Servers with Intel Xeon E 6300 Series Ahead of Launch
Checking today, we saw the Lenovo ThinkSystem ST250 V3 now lists support for the Intel Xeon “E-2400/ 6300-series processor” on its Tech Specs.
We also saw this on the Lenovo ThinkSystem ST50 V3, the smaller tower server for the company.
We decided to take a quick look at the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR250 V3, the 1U rack server and saw this as well.
When we tried selecting one of the new Xeon 6300 series processors in the configurators, we only saw the Intel Xeon E-2400 series listed:
Still, this means we have a launch of new processors coming soon because it appears as though the product pages have been updated while the configurator has not.
Final Words
Recently, we had a piece discussing The Intel Xeon E Challenge in 2025. With Lenovo’s new disclosure, it seems to indicate that Intel will be launching the new 6300 series. Again, this does not seem to be the confusingly similarly named Xeon Gold 6300 series as those processors used DDR4, PCIe Gen4, and a completely different socket to the Xeon E-2400 series, making them unlikely to be compatible.
The funny part about this is that the reason we saw this is that we were checking President’s Day sales at Lenovo’s site (affiliate link) looking to buy a ST50 V3 on a deal and saw the new CPU line listed. We double-checked some Dell and HPE listings, and it does not seem like, even with the HPE ProLiant Gen12 Launching Ahead of Intel Granite Rapids-SP, that the new SKUs are mentioned on their product pages.
Oooh, exotic 4400 MHz DDR5. Don’t see that one everyday.
8 cores in a server CPU? Intel really can’t just give people what they need, can they? I’m sure it works for some people, but unless you NEED the Xeon-exclusive ISAs (AVX-512, SGX, etc), you’re just paying a premium for an 3 or 5 level consumer CPU.
@Cole actually 8 cores is perfect in this size platform. We buy lots of Xeon E servers. Great for edge virtualization. Yes its basically an i7 or whatever, but you get ECC memory. And we need ECC memory. Not optional for our use case. Xeon E has nice low tdp as well, we buy 65w versions. None of the other server chips cater to this market.
@Cole
AVX-512 is available on AMD Zen4 and Zen5 all sku’s including consumer. Intel has actually dropped it from many of their processors.
But point taken if you want other exclusive Intel ISA’s ….biggest one to me is QuickAssist.
8 cores is plenty good for a dedicated baremetal server…but I don’t know anyone doing that outside of SMB product. I do that for a opensense server…overkill a bit for a firewall on proxmox, but if I need a remote on-prem server spun up for some diagnostics on that site I’d rather have the performance of 8 cores than 4cores on a standard firewall appliance.
AMD has been seriously behind the game on this front as well…I want those 65W 4-16c zen5c parts, any frequency. They have the ECC on all cpu parts already, just need board manufacturers to qualify them. Xeon E parts are great in this segment, a huge step up from atom parts of years past.
@MDF
AMD EPYC 4000 series fits this role, it’s basically AM5 qualified and officially supported for server use.
It runs circles around those Xeon E when AVX-512 is concerned, and Zen 5 versions will make the distance even further considering this article’s suggestion that “next gen” Xeon E is rebranded last gen.
And even before that there were AM4 and AM5 server boards, for example from ASRock Rack with all the trimmings like ECC, BMC or 10/25G NICs.
QuickAssist is not available on Xeon E anyway, so it’s beside the point here. SGX is such a security failure it had to be removed from mainstream SKUs (hilariously leaving legal BluRay UHD owners unable to play their disks in modern PCs).
I guess Intel’s unable to secure enough TSMC capacity to upgrade their Xeon E to Arrow Lake…