HDEC series® form factor – supports industry standard PCI express plug-in cards with expanded PCIe linking capabilities to increase system bandwidth and reduce data latencies. HDEC Series system host boards and backplanes are designed for easy system integration into industry standard 19? rackmount computer enclosures. These long-life processors support forty (44) native PCI express 3.0 links per processor for a total of eighty-eight (88) PCIe Gen3 links routed off the SEP8253 and down to an HDEC series system backplane. Each processor supports a number of advanced Intel technologies including Intel® Hyper-threading, Intel® Turbo Boost and Intel® Virtualization (VT-x).