Intel Expands Product Portfolio
By ST Team   |   Friday, 01 September 2006, 19:30 IST
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Intel Corporation has expanded its processor line by adding a family of 8 new Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 series processors. Formerly code-named ‘Tulsa’, the power saving series, is designed for multi-processor servers. According to the company, the series, featuring 95-watt options, performs three times better compared to its previous Intel Xeon MP processors, and are socket compatible with currently shipping platforms. “Today's introduction continues an historic 'summer of servers' for Intel where we have now delivered a record 23 new processors in three market segments in less than 100 days,” says Tom Kilroy, vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. Built on Intel's 65-nm manufacturing process, the Dual-Core Intel Xeon 7100 series processors boast more than 1.3 billion transistors and 16-MB of shared cache. Systems can be scaled to 32 processors. The Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7100 series feature Virtualization Technology, which is said to lower the total cost of ownership by assisting with consolidation of different software applications. Servers based on the Dual-Core Xeon 7100 series processors are currently available in India. Prices for the processors range from $856 for the 2.6-GHz chip to $1,980 for the 3.4-GHz processor.

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