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Intel® Trusted Execution Technology
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology enhances PC security. It comprises a range of hardware extensions for Intel® processors and chipsets that provide additional security features for the digital office platform, such as securely launching system programs and the operating system, and running applications in a protected environment. This enables an environment where applications run in their own space, isolated from all other system software.

Intel® Directed I/O Virtualization Technology (VT-d)
Intel® Directed I/O Virtualization Technology (VT-d) builds upon existing support for virtualization solutions for IA-32 (VT-x) and Itanium® processor-based systems (VT-i), adding new support for I/O device virtualization. Intel VT-d can help users improve system security and reliability, as well as the performance of I/O devices in virtualized environments.

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) allows a single hardware platform to be used as multiple “virtual“ platforms. It offers improved manageability through reduced downtime and maintains productivity by moving compute operations into separate partitions.

Intel® 64
In conjunction with the appropriate software, the Intel® 64 architecture enables 64-bit processing in servers, workstations, PCs, and mobile platforms.1 Intel 64 improves performance because this processor extension allows the system to address more than 4 GB of virtual and physical memory.

Cache
The CPU cache is a high-speed memory area located within the processor. Intel® Smart Cache refers to the architecture that allows all cores to dynamically share access to the last-level cache.

Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® AES New Instructions (Intel® AES-NI) is a collection of instructions for fast and secure encryption and decryption of data. AES-NI are valuable components for cryptographic applications, such as: bulk encryption/decryption, authentication, random number generation, and authentication encryption.

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology dynamically increases the frequency of a processor as needed by utilizing temperature and power reserves to provide more speed when required and more energy efficiency otherwise.

Max. Turbo clock frequency
The maximum turbo frequency is the maximum single-core clock frequency at which the processor can operate using Intel® Turbo Boost Technology and, if available, Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost. The frequency is measured in gigahertz (GHz), or billions of cycles per second.

Execute-Disable-Bit
The Execute Disable Bit is a hardware-based security feature that reduces the risk of virus infections and can prevent malicious software from being executed on the server or network.

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology enables two processing threads per physical core. Applications with many threads can perform more tasks in parallel and complete tasks sooner.

Command set
An instruction set refers to the set of basic commands and instructions that a microprocessor understands and can execute. The displayed value indicates which Intel instruction set this processor is compatible with.

Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT), also known as Second Level Address Translation (SLAT), accelerates memory-intensive virtualization applications. Using Extended Page Tables on platforms with Intel® Virtualization Technology reduces overall memory and power costs and increases battery life through hardware optimization of page table management.

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology is an advanced feature designed to combine high performance with low power consumption, a common requirement in mobile devices. Traditional Intel SpeedStep® Technology switches voltage and frequency simultaneously between high and low values depending on processor workload. Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology builds upon this architecture, utilizing design strategies such as separating voltage and frequency changes, as well as clock partitioning and recovery.

Intel® Speed Shift Technology
Intel® Speed Shift Technology uses hardware-controlled P-states to achieve significantly faster response times for short-term, transient single-threaded workloads (such as web browsing). This allows the processor to select the optimal operating frequency and voltage for peak performance and energy efficiency.

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Clock Frequency
The clock frequency of Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 is the maximum clock frequency of a single processor core at which the processor can operate with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology. The frequency is usually measured in gigahertz (GHz) or in billions of clock cycles per second.

Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel®SGX)
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) enable applications to establish hardware-enforced Trusted Execution Protection for their sensitive routines and data. Intel® SGX provides developers with a way to partition code and data into CPU-secured Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) for program execution.

Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost)
A new set of embedded processor technologies to accelerate AI deep learning applications. This extends Intel AVX-512 with a new VNNI (Vector Neural Network Instruction), which significantly improves deep learning performance compared to previous generations.

Instruction set extensions
Instruction set extensions are additional instructions designed to improve performance when performing the same operations on multiple data objects. These can include SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) and AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions).

Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 Frequency
Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 identifies the core(s) with the highest performance and delivers increased performance to those cores by increasing the clock frequency as needed, utilizing available power and thermal headroom. Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 frequency is the clock speed of the CPU when running in this mode.

Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0
Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 identifies the core(s) with the best performance and delivers increased performance to those cores by increasing the clock frequency as needed, utilizing power and temperature reserves.

Intel® Total Memory Encryption
TME – Total Memory Encryption (TME) protects data from the risk of physical attacks on the memory, such as cold start attacks.

Number of UPI links
Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (UPI) Links means a point-to-point high-speed interconnect bus between processors, providing increased bandwidth and performance over Intel® QPI.

Number of AVX-512 FMA units
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) are new instruction set extensions that provide ultra-wideband (512-bit) vector operating capabilities with up to 2 FMAs (Fused Multiply Add) instructions to accelerate your most demanding computational tasks.

Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT)
Intel® Resource Director Technology (Intel® RDT) enables better visibility and control over the use of shared resources by applications, virtual machines (VMs) and containers – for example, last-level cache (LLC) and memory bandwidth.

Persistent Intel® Optane™ DC memory supported
Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory represents a revolutionary layer of non-volatile memory positioned between main memory and data storage to deliver large, cost-effective memory capacity comparable to DRAM performance. With its large system-level memory capacity when combined with traditional DRAM, Intel Optane DC persistent memory supports the transformation of memory-constrained workloads such as cloud computing, databases, in-memory analytics, virtualization, and CDN (Content Delivery Network) applications.

MBE (Mode-based Execute Control)
Mode-based execution control can more reliably verify and enforce code integrity at the kernel level.

Intel® Boot Guard
Intel® Device Protection Technology with Boot Guard helps protect the environment from viruses and malicious software attacks before the operating system is activated.

Intel® Control Flow Enforcement Technology
CET – Intel Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) protects against the misuse of legitimate code snippets through ROP (return-oriented programming) attacks to take over the control structure.

Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions New Instructions (Intel® TSX-NI) are a set of instructions for multithreaded performance scaling. This technique improves efficiency in parallel operations through enhanced software-based lock management.