Saturday, February 2, 2008

Processor Wars


INTEL XEON PROCESSOR :

A refresh of the current Xeon, intel will launch Harpertown with clock speeds all the way up to 3.16GHz, and will also ship two low voltage parts (2.3GHz and 2.6GHz). There is speculation that intel may be able to reach3.4GHz with the new 45nm process shrink. Harpertown will top off at 3.2GHz at launch. Intel has also increased the Front Side Bus with the new Stoakley platform. The FSB now tops out at 1600MHz.]

The L2 cache has been increased as well, with 6 MB for each core pushing the total L2 cache to 12MB. Coming just a few days after the launch OF AMD’S new Barcelona processor, this launch will heat up the competition in the server market.

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