Intel Launches New Enterprise-Class Server Processors

Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corporation has announced the launch of a set of 17 enterprise-class server processors. These are the Xeon Processor 5500 series of processors, around which – according to the company press release – 70 system manufacturers have already announced having built their branded systems to be launched in the market shortly.

The processors range in price from USD 188 to USD 1,600 in quantities of 1,000.

According to Intel, servers manufactured around the 5500 will have the capability to automatically and “intelligently” balance performance load as well as consumption of power in real time. Some of the latest technologies that have been incorporated into the 5500 series are “Turbo Boost”, hyper-threading and “QuickPath”. While Turbo Boost increases processor frequency in response to application demand, hyper-threading manages concurrent application threads in every clock cycle, and QuickPath speeds traffic between the processors and I/O controllers for bandwidth-intensive applications, leading to speeds up to 25.6 GB/s.

The availability of Solid-State Disks (SSDs) and 10GB Ethernet networking available in the market together combine to provide servers that are of a class much higher than previously possible.

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