Intel to Bring-In 3GHz Quad-Core Chips, 1600MHz Processor Bus

[D_o_S]

Intel Corp. announced on Wednesday that its server and workstation products made using 45nm process technology are on schedule, and will be available this year.

Kirk Skaugen, the chief of Intel's Xeon group, said during a conference call with analysts that the company plans to introduce low-power quad-core chip with 50W thermal design power in early March, to present code-named Caneland multi-processor server platform in Q3 2007 and to launch the first Xeon DP (dual processor) products made using 45nm process technology in the second half of the year.

The new Intel Xeon 45nm microprocessor for dual-socket applications based on the core that Intel calls Penryn will be drop-in compatible with the company's contemporary Intel 5000-series core-logic sets (code-named Bensley and Glidewell platforms), however, there will be an improved version of the Intel 5000-series chipset aimed at HPC/WS market segments that features 1600MHz processor system bus (PSB) coming in the second half of the year to support higher-performance Xeon "Clovertown" chips with operation at 3GHz.

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[Completely Bonkers]

Until recently, the desktop chipset (Pentium) and the server chipset (Xeon) used to have a (slightly) different architecture and different cache sizes. Performance was always better clock-for-clock on the Xeons.

However, the situation is now changed: Am I right thinking that (with the new Xeon/Core platform) that the performance of a Xeon is identical to a Core, clock for clock? The only different now between the server platform and desktop platform is that Xeons can operate in a multi-socket environment.

 

[Wile E]

Until recently, the desktop chipset (Pentium) and the server chipset (Xeon) used to have a (slightly) different architecture and different cache sizes. Performance was always better clock-for-clock on the Xeons.

However, the situation is now changed: Am I right thinking that (with the new Xeon/Core platform) that the performance of a Xeon is identical to a Core, clock for clock? The only different now between the server platform and desktop platform is that Xeons can operate in a multi-socket environment.

Ram standards are also different between the two. This actually gives a slight edge to the desktop chips in most cases, in terms of performance.

 

[WarEagleAU]

What blows my mind is 50W. ::Faint::

 

[Scavar]

Can we.....play games with them? That sounds like an impressive piece of hardware, but what advantages does it have over the nonwork station, other then the 50W?

Oh wait, teh 1600PSB?

 

[ktr]

dual quad core xeon = drool...

 

[C.Ash]

Boo! We want Wolfsdale and Penryn.

 

[tkpenalty]

Great thing is.... we won't need new gay chipsets to run Wolfsdale and Penryn =D.