Romley has been one of the most anticipated server platforms from Intel in many years. Romley is Intel's codename for the server platform combining the Sandy Bridge-EP CPU and Patsburg Platform Controller Hub chipset. Finally, on March 6, Intel rolled out a major product launch with a focus on the CPU and its official name--the Xeon E5-2600. Designed for cloud, enterprise and high-performance computing (HPC) server applications, the Xeon E5-2600 family of processors effectively replaces the Xeon 5500 and 5600 processors by delivering more processing power, cache, memory addressing and I/O bus bandwidth. The Xeon E5-2600 betters the 5600 by adding two more cores, 8 Mbytes more cache, support for six more DIMMs of faster DDR3-1600 memory (increasing total memory capacity to 768 Gbytes), double the I/O bandwidth with PCIe 3.0, and more Intel QuickPath links between processors.