Facebook Partnerships Intel for Xeon-Based Server Deployments
	Intel and Facebook inked a partnership agreement for the optimization of Facebook's hardware and software for the datacenter infrastructure the company is currently building. Facebook's increasingly rich media applications including videos, music, photos and more impose leveraging the processing power of the company. Over the next year, Facebook should be deploying "thousands of Intel Xeon processor-based servers&q ... [read more >>]
	01 August 2008, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Lowers Prices for Core 2 and Xeon Processors
	Price cuts are always an interesting subject, as they allow a user to acquire better products for less money than under normal circumstances. This holds true regardless of the manufacturer's reasons for it. However, if you’re on the lookout for another price cut session for ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Eurocom Introduces D901C PHANTOM-X Server Notebook
	Eurocom has announced a less usual notebook offering called the D901C PHANTOM-X. The so-called notebook has nothing in common with the Eee PC and the likes; on the contrary, it is a fully-fledged mobile server solution that weighs in at 5.44kg but packs all the horsepower it takes to run a data center. According to its specification sheet, the D901C Phantom-X sports a 17-inch WSXGA+ glossy mate LCD screen, able to render reso ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Introduces New 45-Nanometer Xeon Chips
	Intel has just introduced two new low-voltage offerings to join the Xeon server CPU family. Both chips are based on Intel's 45-nanometer micro-architecture and come in a 50W thermal envelope. The chips are running at maximum core frequencies of 2.5 GHz. According to the chip manufacturer, the quad-core Xeon L5420 parts are built on Intel's 45-nanometer processing node and come with a significant performance boost ove ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 09:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Will Ship Six-Core Xeons Later This Year
	Intel officials have confirmed the that the company will start shipping the first six-core processors later this year. The new six-core offerings will hit the market in the second quarter of the year, but no specific date was mentioned. Intel has chosen to announce an estimative date for the Xeons' launch in order to put an end to the speculations about the shipping date of the six-cored chips. The rumors erupted last mon ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2008, 10:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel to Unveil Six New Chips for the Embedded Market
	Intel has just unveiled five new processors and a chipset dedicated to the embedded consumer electronics market. Built on the new 45-nanometer manufacturing process, the new quad-core and dual-core Xeon chips will come with extended lifecycle support from the traditional five years to seven years. "It's good news from the standpoint that Intel continues to be dedicated to the market," said In-Stat analyst Jim Mc ... [read more >>]
	28 February 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Starts Phasing Out Its Conroe-Based Xeon Processors
	The advent of the new Penryn series of processors from Intel has pushed the company retire its lower-performing 65-nanometer technology. The "purification" process has started with seven mobile CPUs in the Core 2 Duo family, built on the M ... [read more >>]
	04 February 2008, 03:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Xeons vs. Opterons: the Benchmark Clash
	The eternal confrontation between Intel's and AMD's processors has been sanctioned by an independent benchmark lab situated in the outskirts of Chicago. The object of attention was the CPU manufacturers' server line of processors, namely Intel's Xeons and AMD's Opterons. The lab's manager, Neal Nelson, has run an extensive test on quad-cored Xeons and compared them to the Opteron benchmark result ... [read more >>]
	15 January 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Quad-Core Opteron to Sweep the Floor With Intel's Xeon, Says AMD
	The dual-core Opteron line from AMD is alleged to be up to 15 percent more efficient than Intel's Xeon division under the newest SPECcpu2006 benchmarks. AMD have started boasting their benchmark testing results, that show a 50% increase in integer and floating-point performance in the quad-core line, compared to the dual-core Opterons. Moreover, AMD's website is full of buzzing advice regarding correct benchmarking pro ... [read more >>]
	28 November 2007, 03:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD vs Intel: The Performance War Continues
	Which is better, AMD or Intel? This question is the driving force that led to the recently consumed price war and now it leads to a whole new series of benchmarks and comparisons between the newest quad core Advanced Micro Devices processors aimed at servers and their Intel made counterparts. In order to come up with a unified way of measuring processors' performance under controlled conditions, the latest offerings from AMD and Intel ... [read more >>]
	28 September 2007, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Clovertown CPUs Get a New Stepping
	It is customary in the central processing units manufacturing industry to release a processor featuring some basic improvements and then after some time to launch a new variant of the same processor which integrates a set of upgrades over the previous design. This process is called "stepping up" a processor and it is done at a large scale not only by the processor manufacturers, but by other companies active of the computer hardw ... [read more >>]
	07 September 2007, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sun Comes With a Four-Socket, Quad-Core Server
	Sun Microsystems offered today the first information about its brand new server system, a four socket computer based on quad core Intel processors packed in a 2U configuration. The new server is based on Intel quad core Xeon 7300 central processing units which were released officially today. At the same time, Intel announced that the Sun made operating system Solaris is the only mission critical UNIX based system fully compatible with the ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 09:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Aberdeen Launches 4x4 Intel-based Servers
	High performance computing is based on either x86 compatible hardware or some other more exotic standards like those made by IBM, Sun and so on, but the vast majority of servers around the world are based on x86 compatible processors made either by AMD or Intel. While the single processor server system still has a place on the high performance computing market, the number of two, four and multi way servers are increasing at a fast pace, th ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 05:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Intel Quad Cores Coming Soon
	The most important computer processor manufacturing company in the world, Intel, announced that it will soon officially launch a new line of Xeon processors designed for high end servers running in multiple socket environments. This move comes just in time as an attempt to block AMD's own line of quad core central processing units. Codenamed Tigerton those new Intel processors will form the Xeon 7300 lineup and they will be the ver ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 03:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Upgrades The Xeon Family
	There are two nice and relatively easy solutions when it comes to increasing the performance of a family of central processing units, CPUs for short, without going deep into their internal working and modifying their architecture. The first method would be to simply increase the running frequency and while this method is the simplest and guarantees some measure of performance boost, clock speeds can not be increased forever. The second and ... [read more >>]
	30 August 2007, 05:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Announces Official Penryn Launch Date
	The release date of the next generation of quad core server intended processors from the Xeon line is official now. Intel decided that the best release data is the 11th of November, when the giant chipmaker will launch no less than seven processors based on the Harpertown core. According to the news site DailyTech, I ... [read more >>]
	15 August 2007, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Introduces New CPUs
	Intel announced the release of two new processors from the Xeon product line, the X5365 and the L5335, almost a month before the AMD Barcelona processors are due to hit the market. The new Xeon processors are based on the quad core architecture and they are designed for use inside servers. According to the news site ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel to Phase Out More Processors
	Computer hardware industry has a natural way of getting rid of products that are no longer top of the line in their category or are no longer demanded by customers. From time to time, a hardware manufacturer will announce that one or more products, be it processors, video cards, motherboards or just about everything else, will be shipped only for a limited time and then both production and shipping will be stopped. Intel made jus ... [read more >>]
	31 July 2007, 05:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Processors Are More Energy Efficient Than Intel's
	There is a war going on. A war between AMD and Intel that started just as soon as the first AMD designed and produced x86 compatible processor came on the market. For a long time, Intel was the undisputed leader in the processor market and the driving force of innovation in the entire computer hardware industry. Then with the first Athlon series processors from AMD the situation changed dramatically and Intel was finally forced to take a d ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NEC and Stratus to Ship Fault-Tolerant Servers
	The NEC and Stratus companies joined together in a partnership to design and build a fault tolerant server line that was supposed to start shipping in late June, but because of some technical problems, the launch was postponed until mid July. As of this week, customers will find the fault tolerant storage servers centered around Intel's processors, more exactly the quad core server chip Xeon 5300, named Clovertown. The pa ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2007, 10:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Quad-Core Xeon Jumps Over The 3GHz Mark
	The Xeon processor family is Intel's attempt to capitalize on its massive success on the desktop and mobile markets. The Xeons are designed to be server chips, not intended for the individual customers, but for large corporations and equally big and important servers. Built on the 45 nm architecture, this new family of server chips is sometimes called the "Penryn architecture". They represent the first ever quad ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2007, 09:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel to Phase Out Yet Another Processor
	As new processors and technologies are developed, manufacturers slowly side-line their older products. This process is known as "phasing out" and the respective products are marked as E.O.L (end of life). All hardware and software producers are using this procedure to replace their older products with new ones. "Phased out" hardware or software is replaced by newer (and hopefully improved) versions. This proce ... [read more >>]
	13 July 2007, 02:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's CPUs Are Going Down
	AMD's position in the server-class business has always been a problem. The introduction of K8 cores created a path between them and large system integrators (such as Dell) but that only managed to bring them some 10% of the total market. Opterons had a lot to do with AMDs increase since they outperformed Xeons in most applications. However the introduction of Core 2 Duo architectures gave INTEL the upper hand once more. And ... [read more >>]
	14 June 2007, 08:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Quad-Core Xeons Are Arriving
	Sounds just like a commercial now, doesn't it? Well, perhaps there is a commercial purpose in all INTEL's struggle to compete as effectively as it can against the invasion of Opterons into the server area. And while Netburst-based Xeons did little against it, Woodcrests and Clovertons (which are Core 2 based) can be a lot more effective especially due to their superior performance in clock/clock benchmarks. INTEL has recently[ ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2007, 08:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Skulltrail Platform Challenges AMD's Quad FX
	If you want a manual on “how to take on AMD for everything they've got” just ask Intel, they've got just the thing for you, seeing as how their determination has led them into a whole bunch of mishaps, including an ongoing trial with AMD, in which Intel “accidentally” erased the employers' e-mails and other data that could have been vital to this trial. A judge ordered them to recover the data and install better ba ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2007, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Penryn Is 40 Percent Faster in Gaming
	Intel made a big splash at the IDF held in Beijing, a lot of novelties brought forth, and some light shed on previously known plans. The first of these include the performance Penryn will bring to us, humble users, compared to the current Conroe-based products. The company isn't wasting any time; they are, in lack of a better word, afraid of something, and that something I believe to be AMD. But how is that possible? I mean ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2007, 04:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

$999 for 1333MHz FSB
	Since Intel came out with the Core CPU architecture, everybody loved it, from the very beginning; and it's understandable, I mean, who wouldn't like to see a processor overclock from 1.8GHz to 3.6GHz on air cooling alone. But not everybody wants to overclock their CPU, some actually like it when it runs at stock speed, those people either don't know how to overclock a CPU, or are scared of the process because they& ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2007, 05:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Put Your Hands Up for Intel
	Ok, so maybe the song doesn't go like that, but they deserve some credit, everything revolves around the Intel universe nowadays. Maybe it's still time for somebody to step in just as the checkered flag waves by, but it's sure going to be rough to take on Chipzilla, yet alone bring them down from their pedestal. First of all, they've convinced Apple to trade their processors for Intel-based solutions, makin ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IBM Brings Out the Big Guns
	In today's economy, in order for an action to succeed, it must be backed-up by solid facts, or better said, by a large enough pocket to sponsor the desired action. Therefore, taking action will result in progress (hypothetically speaking in the best-case scenario), and progress has a number of factors which define it; bigger is considered better, faster means more, cheaper also means more, and looking at progress with intell ... [read more >>]
	06 April 2007, 10:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The G700 Quad-Core Intel Platform
	When you try to make something work but you know that the entire process is painstakingly long, you often resort to unorthodox methods, a way of overcoming the hardship through some thoughtful innovation. Like take for instance the simple process of making ice cubes, to go down well with that whisky, if you just have the water and the refrigerator, the key element is still missing, so it's easier to just go out and buy a pla ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2007, 08:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Orange County Choppers Builds Bike for Intel
	Mikey, Paul Junior and Paul Senior, or best known as the Teutuls family from American Chopper have another task at hand, and this time it's a big one as they have to satisfy the desires of Chipzilla, or the way it's known among close friends, as the Intel Corporation, by building them a theme bike. Intel is celebrating 30 years in the embedded computing domain with the launch of two products, the Quad-Core Intel Xeon ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2007, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Intel Server Processors On the Way
	The biggest problem when you are good at something is that everybody wants a piece of you and of what you do. Having success in a domain after working so long to get there can have its downsides, and the IT business is no stranger to this ordeal. Like in the real world, the computer industry has its ups and downs, its happy moments and its sad moments, but when something eventually goes wrong, there is a simple solution to the pr ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2007, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Taking Power Consumption to Another Level, the Basement
	Expanding the Xeon line of products, Intel has released a couple of new Quad Core processors. These come with a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 50Watts. Yes, some of you might have figured this out by now, we'll soon cool down our processors just by blowing over them as we would to put out a candle. As Intel so kindly did the math for us, that gives a 12.5Watt power consumption per core. This will come as a blow for the power ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 07:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia