The new Xeons server-oriented CPUs, known by the code name Prestonia, will be offered at 2.2GHz for $615, 2GHz for $417 and 1.8GHz for $251. The Xeons, based on the Pentium 4 architecture, are also the first to incorporate a performance-enhancing technology called hyperthreading. The new feature essentially enables a single Xeon to act like virtual dual processors. When used in conjunction with software designed for multi-CPU systems, hyperthreading can provide up to a 40 percent boost in performance compared with a same-speed Xeon with hyperthreading disabled, Intel officials said. In other hardware news, Seagate demonstrated a Serial ATA-enabled hard drive at the Intel Developer Forum today in San Francisco.
Intel Unleashes Speedy Xeon, Server Chip Set
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Previously Microsoft had “unleashed” .Net. Now a chip has been “unleashed”.
Please Eugnenia. Silly headlines make baby jesus cry!
The headline is not mine. It is ExtremeTech’s.
… who cares? It’s just a headline, meant to get your attention long enough to read the article
I seem to recall the company I work for having a dual-Xeon 550 Intel machine for the file server… Is this a new version of that CPU line, or did they hope we would forget that they had already used that name?