Saturday, April 02, 2005

Intel Rolls Out 64 Bit Xeons at Pentium Prices

Intel unveiled three performance Xeon MPs, ranging in frequency from 2.83GHz to 3.33GHz and 4MB to 8MB of Level 3 cache. Two "value" processors offer 3.16GHz and 3.66GHz speeds and 1MB of Level 2 cache.

The larger cache in the performance SKUs will make these transaction processing and data warehousing workhorses.

The price as low as $722 (qty 1,000) makes the Cranford value chips attractive for a new generation of low-cost 4-way servers. Dell immediately jumped in with its offering. These will sell by the boxcar for web processing and Tier 1 apps.

Peter S. Kastner

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