[Back to blog](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog) [Announcements](https://zcp.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://zcp.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://zcp.zsoftly.ca/availability) or [see compute pricing](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/pricing#compute). ## Related articles Announcements October 11, 2026 ### [ZCP Store: Buy Services and Licences From Your Console](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console) The Store is a new tab in the ZCP console. Buy support, professional services, dedicated servers and licences there, and they bill on the same invoice as your instances. Announcements October 11, 2026 ### [Our CLI and Terraform Provider Reach v1](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-cli-terraform-v1) ZCP CLI v1.0.1 and the Terraform and OpenTofu provider v1.0.0 are available today, bringing Pricing V2 configuration, Kubernetes role sizing, VM backup schedules, and lifecycle fixes to automation workflows. Announcements October 11, 2026 ### [ZCP Pricing V2: Compute and Storage Sold Separately](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-pricing-v2-compute-and-storage-sold-separately) ZCP plans are now CPU and memory only. You choose the root disk size in GB when you create a server and pay the per-GB rate of the storage tier. Existing servers keep their plan and price.