Anusha
03-01-2007, 09:54 AM
Intel on Wednesday said it would boost the clock speed of its quad-core Xeon processor, and introduce an upgraded chipset for workstation and high-performance computing.
Executives with the Santa Clara, Calif., company said the clock speed of the recently released quad-core, 65nm dual-socket Xeon 5300 series would be increased to 3GHz from the current 2.66 GHz. The boost stemmed from customer requests for a faster quad-core server chipset. The 5300 series was Intel's first crack at Xeon quad-core chips. The product line, which will get a refresh later this year, is also known by its code name, Clovertown.
In addition, the chipmaker said it would ship in the second half of the year a chipset with a faster front-side system bus. The FSB is a bi-directional bus that carries data between the CPU and other devices in the computer system, such as random access memory, hard disks and video cards. The chipset, code-named Seaburg, would have a 1600 MHz FSB versus 1333 MHz in Intel chipsets currently used in workstations and high-performance computing.
The company said it planned to release this year chipsets that enable virtualization for directed I/O. I/O, or input/output, relates to the CPU reading and writing instructions in the computer's main memory. That type of virtualization in a chipset means more applications can be consolidated on a server computer.
During the meeting, Kilroy also said the company was on track to release several new chips. A low-voltage, 50-watt version of the quad-core Xeon 5300 series processor, code-named Clovertown LV, would ship by the end of next month.
More details including Penryn and Nehalem at Information Week (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IWMZRE3UIKCJUQSNDLRCK H0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197700270&subSection=Breaking+News)
Executives with the Santa Clara, Calif., company said the clock speed of the recently released quad-core, 65nm dual-socket Xeon 5300 series would be increased to 3GHz from the current 2.66 GHz. The boost stemmed from customer requests for a faster quad-core server chipset. The 5300 series was Intel's first crack at Xeon quad-core chips. The product line, which will get a refresh later this year, is also known by its code name, Clovertown.
In addition, the chipmaker said it would ship in the second half of the year a chipset with a faster front-side system bus. The FSB is a bi-directional bus that carries data between the CPU and other devices in the computer system, such as random access memory, hard disks and video cards. The chipset, code-named Seaburg, would have a 1600 MHz FSB versus 1333 MHz in Intel chipsets currently used in workstations and high-performance computing.
The company said it planned to release this year chipsets that enable virtualization for directed I/O. I/O, or input/output, relates to the CPU reading and writing instructions in the computer's main memory. That type of virtualization in a chipset means more applications can be consolidated on a server computer.
During the meeting, Kilroy also said the company was on track to release several new chips. A low-voltage, 50-watt version of the quad-core Xeon 5300 series processor, code-named Clovertown LV, would ship by the end of next month.
More details including Penryn and Nehalem at Information Week (http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IWMZRE3UIKCJUQSNDLRCK H0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=197700270&subSection=Breaking+News)