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The backbone of the modern internet. If you streamed a movie, bought a pair of socks online, or checked your bank balance in 2017, there is a very high probability your request was handled by a rack full of these chips. With 8 cores and 16 threads, it wasn't the fastest chip in the lineup, but it was the efficiency king.
It represents the peak of the Broadwell-EP generation. Today, these chips flood the secondary market, allowing students and homelab hobbyists to build servers in their bedrooms that are more powerful than the supercomputers of the 1990s.