Intel unveils high-efficiency quad-core processors
Friday, 07 September 2007, 19:30 IST
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Hyderabad: Intel Thursday launched the industry's first quad-core processors designed for multi-processor servers and high-end desktops to give higher performance at lesser power. The six new processors in the quad-core Xeon 7300 series, deployed to run multiple applications in data centres, businesses and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), perform two times faster than dual cores with three times more output per watt. "The quad-core Xeon 7300-based servers and desktops are being launched simultaneously by OEMs worldwide for diverse applications in virtual environment for server consolidation, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI)," Intel South Asia sales director R. Ravichandran said at a demo of the new products here. About 50 OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), including global majors such as HP, IBM, NEC, Sun, Dell, Hitachi, Fujitsu and Unisys and home-grown firms like Wipro and HCL are set to release worldwide their new servers and high-end desktops with the new Xeon processors and chipsets. The 65-nanometre (nm) processors in frequencies up to 3GHz at 130 watts, 80 watts and 50 watts, come with four socket blades and rack form factors. The new series chipset with data traffic optimisation provides a platform design to enhance data movement between processors, memory and inter-operable (I/O) connections. "As the backbone of enterprises, the Xeon servers run several applications requiring stringent performance, reliability and scalability and reduce the cost of ownership, with lower utility bills, lesser space and minimum operations costs," said Ravichandran. The new platform also enables enterprises to go in for virtualisation and server consolidation. End-users will be able to integrate single, dual or multi-processor servers into a virtual infrastructure and allow live virtual machine migration to ensure pervasive computing without the fear of a crash, load balancing and disaster recovery or server maintenance. "The Xeon 7300 series will also be compatible to our next-generation 45nm core architecture-based platform that is due to be released globally by this yearend," Ravichandran added.
Source: IANS
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