Editing Supermicro Xeon D-1500 (section)

== Introduction to the Xeon D-1500 processor family ==
The [http://www.intel.com/xeond Xeon D-1500 processor family] is a low-power, high-performance System-on-Chip processor based on the 14nm Broadwell architecture. It has all the processor features any home lab needs, like hyperthreading, VT-x and VT-d, EPT, AES-NI, NSX-NI, Trusted Execution, Execute Disable Bit and finally, SR-IOV (with some caveats; see below).

These processors have been on the market since Q4 2015 (as the 15x0 series), and have seen a 15x1 hardware update in Q1 2016. There are currently (as of May 2016) 17 different models, differencing in number of cores, frequency, amount of cache and power usage. According to Intel ARK, some specific processors take only DDR4 memory, while most accept both DDR3 and DDR4. There are also small differences in USB2.0 vs. USB3.0 support, number of SATA ports and integrated network cards (dual 1Gbit, dual 10Gbit or both).

As this is a System-on-Chip processor, it comes soldered onto the motherboard. When selecting a Xeon D-1500 system, I'd recommend picking the processor first.