During the course of Intel's earnings call on Tuesday, the chip maker's CEO Brian Krzanich said that Intel has commenced the shipping of Xeon E5 chips based on the Haswell microarchitecture to server makers. Krzanich revealed that Haswell-based Xeon E5 chip will be incorporated in servers this quarter.

With Xeon E5 chips already being Intel's biggest-selling products for the server market. According to Mercury Research's chief analyst Dean McCarron, Xeon E5 chips account for approximately 75 percent of Intel server chip shipments.

The new Haswell-based Xeon E5 chips are code-named Grantley; and will succeed Romley code-named chips which are based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture.

According to the details shared by Krzanich, Lenovo has already announced plans to roll out a new line of servers based on Grantley this quarter. In addition, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other server makers which use Intel's server chips could announce products based on Haswell-based Xeon E5 chips.

Krzanich also said that shipments of Grantley chips have already been commenced to cloud and high-performance computing customers who create their own computing gear; and added: "We think it is going to be a very powerful product."