Intel Servers

Intel Corporation’s Multicore Architecture Briefing
Dunnington for Expandable (Multi-Processor) servers — Intel’s current 7300 chipset based platform combined with the Quad-Core Xeon 7300 processor is the industry’s virtualization platform of choice for MP servers. ...

HP turns ProLiant up to 8
Rather than using Intel processors, the ProLiant DL785 G5 uses AMD Opteron “Barcelona” quad-core processors. Unlike Xeons, the AMD processors can support up to 8-socket servers without the use of special server vendor-developed chips. ...

Intel: 6-core Server CPU (Dunnington) this year
Intel have announced their 6-core CPU for servers, codenamed ‘Dunnington’, will be available in the second-half of this year. Based on the existing Penryn (Core 2), the Dunnington chips squeeze three dual-core sets into a single die. ...

Intel Details Plans for Dunnington, Nehalem Processors (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Intel revealed more details Monday about its plans for upcoming microprocessors, including the Dunnington server chip and the much-touted, next-generation Nehalem processor family. The products build on the company's 45nm ...

New Dell Servers Offer Small Businesses Big Performance and Value
There's a lot of similarities between the PowerEdge T300 and the R300 servers. Both of them utilize the Intel 5100 chipset, and both support a wide range of processors, including Intel Celeron, Core 2 Duo, Xeon 3000 series, ...

Intel to shrink upcoming Nehalem chips for laptops (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Intel said Monday that its upcoming chip microarchitecture, Nehalem, will first be targeted at servers and high-end desktops but later will be scaled down for laptops.

Microsoft, Intel to fund multi-core research at UC Berkeley ...
InfoWorld - Microsoft and Intel will unveil on Tuesday a plan to fund university research into new ways to program software for multi-core processors, Microsoft confirmed Monday.

Intel to Shrink Upcoming Nehalem Chips for Laptops
The Dunnington chip will be part of Intel’s Xeon MP 7300 series of processors and will allow a four-processor server to have as many as 24 cores. The chip will have 1.9 billion transistors and include a 16M-byte L3 cache. ...

Intel Plans to Speed Up Introduction of Nehalem Microprocessors
According to diagrams that represent slides from Intel Corp.’s transition guidance documents published by VR-Zone web-site, the fist Intel’s code-named Bloomfield central processing units (CPUs) for 2-way servers are set to be shipped ...

Intel Details Plans for Dunnington, Nehalem Processors
Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger described the Dunnington six-core processor for expandable, or multiprocessor, servers. He said Dunnington, available in the second half of this year, will be the first Intel processor with six ...