User Manual

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7th Generation Intel® Core™ and Celeron® Desktop Processor Families with Intel® H110 and Intel® Q170 Chipsets
KEY FEATURES
POWER EFFICIENCY
Integrated Memory Controller: Supports DDR4 and offers stunning memory read/write performance through efficient prefetching algorithms, lower
latency, and higher-memory bandwidth, when compared to previous generations.
Intel® Smart Cache: Dynamically allocates shared cache to each processor core, based on workload, reducing latency and improving performance.
Intel® Power Optimization and processor C-states: Increases periods of silicon sleep state across the platform ingredients—including the CPU,
chipset, and third-party system components—to reduce power.
PCI Express* 3.0 Interface: Offers up to 8 GT/s for fast access to peripheral devices and networking with up to 16 lanes.
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PCI Express ports can be
configured as x1, x2, x4, x8, and x16 depending on motherboard designs.
Intel® Ready Mode Technology: Improves OS boot time and wakes up from deep sleep state more quickly than previous generations for better
system responsiveness.
INTEL® VPRO™ TECHNOLOGY
Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT): Remotely monitors, maintains, updates, upgrades, and repairs PCs through hardware and
firmware technology for remote out-of-band management.
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT): Helps protect embedded devices and virtual environments against rootkit and other system-
level attacks. Using an industry-standard TPM 1.2 or 2.0 to store keys and other protected data, this portion of Intel® vPro™ technology boots the
BIOS, operating system, and software into a trusted execution state, verifying the integrity of the virtual machine and protecting the platform from
unauthorized access.
Intel® Virtualization Technology: Allows one hardware platform to function as multiple virtual platforms; offers improved manageability
by limiting downtime and maintaining productivity by isolating computing activities into separate partitions.
Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX): Focuses on enterprise-level multithreaded performance scaling, making parallel
operations more efficient via improved control of software threads and locks. This offers performance benefits for enterprise-level big data analytics/
business intelligence and visualization apps, which involve multiuser collaboration. (Available on the Intel® Core™ i7 and Intel® Core™ i5 processors with
Intel® vPro™ technology and unlocked processors.)
SUSTAINABILITY
Green technology: Manufactured with lead-free and halogen-free component packages.
Conflict-free: Products do not contain conflict minerals (tin, tantalum, tungsten, and/or gold) that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or adjoining countries.
SOFTWARE OVERVIEW
The following independent operating system and BIOS vendors provide support for these platforms.
OS VENDOR
OPERATING SYSTEM
(TARGETED FOR SUPPORT) DISTRIBUTION SUPPORT BIOS
Microsoft
Windows* 10 Enterprise (64b) Microsoft Intel/Microsoft
American Megatrends Inc.
Insyde Software
Phoenix Technologies
BYOSOFT
Windows* 10 IoT Enterprise (64b) Microsoft Intel/Microsoft
Linux*
Fedora* 24 or later (mid-2016; 64b) Open Source
Ubuntu*, SUSE, Red Hat Enterprise (64b)
Canonical Ltd., Attachmate Group, Red Hat,
and Open Source
Yocto* v2.2 Morty (Kernel 4.8) tool-based
Embedded Linux* (64b) Distribution
Yocto Project*
Community
Commercial Linux support
from Wind River
Google Chromium* (Chrome*) (64b) The Chromium Projects
Open Source Community
Google
RTOS Wind River VxWorks* 7 (64b) Wind River Systems
Not all features are supported. Contact your local Intel representative for more information.