[Back to blog](https://zsoftly.ca/blog) [Announcements](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/category/announcements) # You Asked for Intel in Montréal. It Is Here. Intel Xeon Gold compute is live in YUL-1: general-purpose and memory-optimized plans, custom sizing, and Intel Xeon Kubernetes nodes, at the same list prices as equivalent AMD sizes. Ditah Kumbong Founder & CTO August 16, 2026 1 min read Share ![ZCP announcement cover reading Intel Xeon Gold, live in Montreal](https://zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/intel-cpu-compute-yul.webp) Since we opened our Montréal region, one request has kept coming up in support tickets and sales calls: “Can we get Intel in YUL, like you have in Ottawa?” You asked. We delivered. Intel compute is now available in YUL-1. ## Why Intel matters to some workloads Most applications genuinely don’t care what silicon they run on, and our AMD EPYC plans remain the default for a reason. But some workloads do care. Commercial software with vendor-specific licensing or support matrices that only approve Intel. Legacy appliances validated against a specific processor family. Teams that standardized on Intel in Ottawa and want a familiar platform baseline as they expand to Montréal. Until now those customers had to choose between the processor they needed and the region they wanted. That trade-off is gone. The new capacity runs on Intel Xeon Gold processors from the Intel Xeon Scalable family, using the same generation as our Ottawa Intel plans. A workload moved between regions therefore lands on a familiar platform baseline. ## What is available now - General-purpose (`ci2`): eight sizes from 1 vCPU / 1 GB up to 16 vCPU / 96 GB of RAM - Memory-optimized (`cim2`): 8:1 RAM-to-vCPU plans from 8 GB up to 64 GB of RAM - Custom sizing: pick your own vCPU and memory at deploy time - Kubernetes: Intel Xeon node capacity for managed clusters Everything uses the same Pro NVMe storage tier as our existing Montréal plans, and pricing is the same as equivalent AMD sizes. You pick the silicon without paying a premium for it. Log in to the portal, choose YUL-1, and select the `ci2` or `cim2` family. [View regional availability](https://zsoftly.ca/availability) or [see compute pricing](https://zsoftly.ca/pricing#compute). ## Related articles Announcements November 8, 2026 ### [Object Storage Encryption Is Now Available on ZCP](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/object-storage-encryption-now-available) Opt in to server-side encryption for ZCP object storage in YUL and YOW, with SSE-S3 or ZSoftly-managed SSE-KMS and bucket defaults for new uploads. Announcements November 5, 2026 ### [ZCP CLI and Terraform Provider v1.3.0](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-cli-terraform-profile-auth) ZCP CLI and Terraform provider v1.3.0 share CLI profiles, make credential selection explicit, and fix inactive subscription listings. Announcements November 2, 2026 ### [How to Reach ZSoftly by Email](https://zsoftly.ca/blog/how-to-reach-zsoftly-by-email) ZSoftly now handles customer email in one shared inbox. Use this guide to pick the right address for account, support, security and abuse messages.