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Download the Intel Processor Identification Utility 4.41

Here's one truly useful utility to help you find out exactly what kind of Intel CPU you're running inside your computer. The Intel Processor Identification Utility 4.41 can easily be used by people whose IT skills aren't too high but it can also serve professionals who have to deal with a large number...

14 January 2012
06:49 GMT

CES 2012: Behold, 8-Core Xeon E5 Powers a LAN Party Machine

Looks like all those rumors about Intel's 8-core server chips being supported by desktop motherboards were true after all. Even though Intel hasn't officially validated the latest Xeon units on consumer motherboards, the ASUS ROG Rampage IV has still been demonstrated running the mighty Xeon E5 8-core uni...

10 January 2012
07:15 GMT

Intel Releases Many Ivy Bridge Xeon Chips This Spring

Looks like some central processing units we have already spotted have been given actual prices, only a day or so after their specifications got leaked. The Xeon series of server CPUs is the Intel product line that fell under the watchful eye of web explorers recently. The result was yet another episode where Inte...

4 January 2012
02:43 GMT

Intel Server Motherboard Holds 8-Core CPUs and 1TB RAM

While it is working on its new and strong consumer processors, Intel is also developing new server hardware for the Xeon series of chips.Intel may not be famous for its motherboards, but that does not mean it is not part of this IT segment.In fact, the company was found to be working on this very sort of product.Int...

28 December 2011
02:58 GMT

HP Tries to Breathe Life into Itanium by Combining It with Xeon

The entire confrontation between Oracle on one side and HP and Intel on the other has not waned, but HP is determined to keep the Itanium going. In comes project Odyssey, a new development roadmap that will somehow combine the Itanium platform with Intel Xeon processors. Oracle already said that everything Itaniu...

24 November 2011
16:51 GMT

Fourth Quarter Gets Ready to Welcome Intel E5-2600 CPUs

Intel has already detailed the new Itanium server chips, but it also has the E6-2600 series of Xeon units in store, their estimated time of arrival having now been discovered. Recent reports about Intel have revealed delays, updates on chip series believed to be dying and even quad-core Core i7 inbound models, amon...

26 August 2011
03:37 GMT

Intel Discontinues 11 Processors Models

Intel has just announced that the company will discontinue 11 of its Celeron, Pentium, Core 2 Duo and Xeon processors based on older architectures in order to make room for chips based on new core designs.To inform its partners of these changes, Intel has sent out product discontinuance notifications (PCN) throughout...

7 June 2011
11:15 GMT

Intel to Launch Its Fastest Sandy Bridge CPU in Q2 2011

Intel will soon expand its Xeon processor family with the addition of the E3-1290 CPU, which, thanks to its 3.6GHz base operating frequency, will become the fastest Sandy Bridge chip in the company's lineup. The Xeon E3-1290 was spotted for the first time at the beginning of April in an 1U rackmount server, p...

19 May 2011
06:11 GMT

Firmware Hack Transforms 2009 Mac Pro into 2010 Model

Users who own a 2009 Apple Mac Pro, but don't want to shell out the money to upgrade to a 2010 model, can now rejoice, as a recently documented firmware hack enables these machines to support up to 12 processing cores as well as higher memory speeds. This is possible since both desktops use the same hardware ...

12 May 2011
07:39 GMT

Intel LGA 1356 Xeon E5-2400 Processors Get Detailed

In the forth quarter of this year, Intel is expected to launch its new high-performance CPU architecture based on the Sandy Bridge-E core, but outside of the LGA-2011 chips the company will also introduce a series of LGA-1356 processors that will be released in the Xeon E5-2400 series.The processors are known under t...

9 May 2011
17:01 GMT

India Enters Supercomputer Race, Builds 220 TeraFLOPS Machine

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has just announced that it has started operating the country's fastest supercomputer yet, the SAGA-220 which uses Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia Tesla GPGPU add-on cards in order to deliver a peak performance of 220 teraflops. India's SAGA-220 supercomputer is ho...

3 May 2011
05:50 GMT

Intel Itanium Engineers Leave to Work on Xeon

With the mild to serious scandal revolving around Intel's Itanium server platform and oracle's stance on it, any information on the subject is scouted out, and this is precisely what a recent report deals with.The past month has been filled with reports and official notifications on Oracle's HP's...

18 April 2011
11:12 GMT

Intel Readies Its Fastest Sandy Bridge CPU to date, the Xeon E3-1290

Even though just a few days have passed since Intel has made official the Xeon E3-1200 series of processors, the Santa Clara based company is already working to add a new CPU to this line, dubbed the E3-1290, which should become the fastest Sandy Bridge-based Xeon chip in Intel's portfolio.At present, the fastes...

11 April 2011
16:31 GMT

[UPDATE]Intel Again Stresses Itanium Support, Xeon Not an Issue

With all the rumble stirred by Oracle's recent decision regarding Intel Itanium server chips, the new Xeon releases may have raised some alarms, but Intel decided to dispel fears by reassuring customers that the former platform is not going away any time soon.Some end-users may be aware of the tensions that aro...

6 April 2011
09:38 GMT

Tyan Intros New Xeon E3 Sandy Bridge Server Motherboards

Shortly after Intel has added the Xeon E3-1200 series of processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture to its offer, Tyan has also announced that availability of two new LGA 1155 motherboards series designed for entry-level servers that target both small business and enterprise server customers. The first moth...

5 April 2011
04:02 GMT

Intel Completes 10-Core Processor

The consumer market might not have much use for chips with too many cores, but the same cannot be said about the server segment, where Intel has the Xeon line, whose newest members have 10 cores each. On the consumer market, the strongest chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have 6 cores and can be afforded o...

4 April 2011
04:37 GMT

Intel's E3 Xeon Processors Will Launch Next Week

Details about Intel's upcoming line of Xeon E3 processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture have been available for quite some time, and it now seems like the Santa Clara-based company is finally getting ready to launch its new CPU series, as these should reach retail sometime next week. According to Sem...

1 April 2011
02:52 GMT

Asus P8B-E/4L Xeon Sandy Bridge Motherboard Gets Listed in Japan

Not that much time has passed since we brought you the first details about Asus' upcoming line of LGA 1155 server and workstation motherboards, which were designed to support Intel's Xeon processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, and now one such board was listed in an Japanese retail store.The mot...

30 March 2011
10:28 GMT

Asus' Sandy Bridge Xeon Motherboard Lineup Revealed

While there is still some time left until Intel makes official the Xeon E3 series of processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, the very first details about Asus' upcoming line of LGA 1155 server motherboards have already made it out into the open and the company plans to release no less than five differ...

23 March 2011
16:01 GMT

Tyan Packs 16 Intel Xeon Powered Compute Nodes Inside 4U Micro Server

Over the years Tyan has accustomed us with their high-performance custom designed servers and the company looks ready to push the envelope once more as it just announced the FM65-B5511 Micro Server, which packs no less than 18 compute nodes in a 4U rack mount enclosure. This so-called micro server was built especi...

17 March 2011
07:06 GMT

Intel to Launch Atom Server CPUs in 2012, 15W Sandy Bridge Xeon in H2 2011

After it publicly criticized the role of ultra-low power processor architectures in the server market, it seems like Intel had a change of heart as the company has now announced its plans regarding the launch of an Atom-based micro-server CPU in 2012. Intel says that, by building an Atom-based server CPU, it will ...

16 March 2011
07:11 GMT

Intel Ships Its Fastest Processor to Date, the 4.4GHz Xeon X5698

Intel has just started shipping a new Xeon processor based on the Westemere architecture, the Xeon X5698, that has now become the company's fastest CPU to ever enter production as its clock speed has been set up at 4.4GHz. According to CPU-World, in the middle of last year, when Intel's started manufactu...

14 March 2011
06:13 GMT

Intel Discontinues 16 Xeon, Celeron and Core i7 Processors

Intel has just decided that it is time to clean up its processor line and released product discontinuance notifications (PDN) for no less than 16 of its CPUs, including two Celeron models, four Core i7 SKUs and 10 Xeon MP 7200, 7300 and 7400 series models. The last order date for the discontinued products is Septe...

9 March 2011
06:11 GMT

Maingear's Quantum Shift Workstation Gets New Intel Xeon Processor Options

Maingear has just announced that the Quantum Shift workstation is now available with two new Intel Xeon 5600 series processor options, the X5687 and X5690, further enhancing the performance of the system. Both processors are compatible with dual-socket systems and feature 12MB of L3 cache, Turbo Boost and Hyper-Th...

1 March 2011
06:02 GMT

Intel's Entire Series of Xeon E7 Processors Gets Detailed

We have previously brought you various details about Intel's upcoming Xeon E7 processor family, which includes no less than 18 eight-core and ten-core processors built on top the Westmere architecture, but now a new slide detailing all the company's E7 SKUs made its way into the Web to offer us a full pictu...

24 February 2011
04:06 GMT

Intel's Upcoming C200 Sandy Bridge Chipset Gets Detailed

Although, in the consumer space, Intel's LGA 1155 motherboard chipsets don't hold any more surprises for most of us, things are different in the server and workstation market as the C200 PCH haven't yet been released, but a recent leak goes to detail a few more of the mysteries of Intel's new Coug...

23 February 2011
06:11 GMT

Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge-E Server Roadmap Revealed

A lot of details about Intel's upcoming Xeon server processors based on the Sandy Bridge-EN and Sandy Bridge-EP architectures have been revealed these last few months, and now a new slide detailing Intel's plans regarding the transition to the Xeon E5 line of processors comes to settle once and for all the ...

17 February 2011
15:31 GMT

Intel Refreshes Its Xeon 5600 Series CPU Lineup

Last week we reported about Intel's plans of refreshing their Xeon 5600 server processor series with the introduction of 10 new models based on the Nehalem architecture, and recently the Santa Clara-based company has made official these new CPUs together with their recommended prices. The Intel Xeon 5600 refr...

15 February 2011
05:54 GMT

Intel Xeon E5 Processor Family Gets Detailed

Expected to be released starting with the fourth quarter of 2011, Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 product line, based on the Sandy Bridge-EN and Sandy Bridge-EP architecture, will be comprised of no less than four different processor series, aimed at single, dual and quad-socket workstations and servers. According t...

9 February 2011
15:01 GMT

More Details About Intel's Upcoming Xeon E7-8800 CPU Line Emerge

Destined to become the company's highest performing server processors when they will be launched in Q2 2011, the Xeon E7-8800 series just got detailed thanks to a leaked Intel document which provides us with all of the CPU's specifications, including clock speeds and feature list. All the processors are ...

9 February 2011
04:18 GMT

Intel 10-Core Xeon E7 CPUs Expected to Arrive in Q2 2011

Destined to take the place of the company's current top-end server processors, the Xeon E7 CPU line which features six, eight and ten-core models is expected to be officially launched on April 4, according to some leaked documents that have reached the Web. The Xeon E7 CPU line is based on the Westmere-EX arc...

8 February 2011
16:01 GMT

Intel Set to Refresh the 5600 Series Xeon Processor Line on February 14

Since there is still some time left until the forth quarter of 2011 when Intel is expected to replace its mid-class server processor offerings with new CPUs based on the Sandy Bridge-EX architecture, the company has decided to refresh one more time its 5600 processor series, the new parts being scheduled to arrive on...

8 February 2011
10:54 GMT

First Intel Sandy Bridge Xeon Processors Said to Arrive February 20

This February, Intel plans to release a large number of mid-class processors including 11 Sandy Bridge-based models from the Xeon E3 CPU line, recent leaks suggesting these are expected to hit retail on February 20, together with no less than three server motherboard chipsets. As we have previously reported a whil...

8 February 2011
03:31 GMT

Intel's Upcoming Xeon E7 Line Gets Detailed, Includes 13 New CPUs

After yesterday we brought you the first details about two 10-core CPUs that will be part of Intel's upcoming Xeon E7 processor line, it’s now time to meet the rest of the family as leaks suggest that this series will contain no less than 13 processor models, ranging from six to ten cores. All of them will be...

25 January 2011
16:01 GMT

Intel Set to Release Two 10-core Westmere-EX Processors in Q2 2011

Ever since the introduction of the first dual-core processor a few years ago, CPU manufacturers have started developing new architectures that would allow them to pack together as many cores as possible inside one chip, Intel's material sheet declaration database revealing that the company plans to release two n...

24 January 2011
15:01 GMT

First Sandy Bridge Based Xeon Processors Detailed

Released at the start of the year, Sandy Bridge will slowly make its way into Intel's workstation and server processor line, the company recently posting the material declaration data sheets for the upcoming Xeon E3-1200 series CPUs that will feature its second generation Core micro-architecture. The informat...

20 January 2011
06:11 GMT

Intel Xeon Chips to Power IBM-Built 3PetaFLOPS Supercomputer

Since there is a constant search for better high-performance computers, IBM decided to start working on its newest supercomputer, one that is set to be based in the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany. Currently, the most powerful supercomputer in existence, constructed with both microprocess...

18 December 2010
04:47 GMT

Eurocom Adds 6-core Intel Xeon Processors To Its Panther Mobile Servers

Call them laptops, mobile servers or whatever you like, but Eurocom's Panther systems are certainly some of the most outrageous systems available out there, the Canadian system builder announcing their high-performance notebook PCs can now be equipped with six-core Intel Xeon X5690 processors.For those of you th...

26 October 2010
06:11 GMT

NextComputing Launches Vigor Evo Plus Rugged System

NextComputing went slightly off-script when it designed its newest rugged system, the Vigor Evo Plus, as it made a more or less mobile computer whose form factor is more reminiscent of a desktop than a laptop, even though it is mobile. Apparently, the newcomer relies on a rugged mil-anodized external chassis and a s...

15 October 2010
02:59 GMT

EVGA's Classified SR-2 Runs Two Superchips, Gets Listed

Even though consumer-oriented six-core CPUs and DirectX 11 graphics cards are what end-users probably think most about right now, there are certain things that cannot go by unnoticed. Such is the case with EVGA's Classified SR-2 motherboard. Announced back in March, just after Intel officially introduced its Xeo...

27 May 2010
03:39 GMT

6-Core Xeon Mac Pros to Be Introduced at WWDC 2010 - Report

A report by HardMac (the English version of French tech-site Macbidouille) reveals that Apple may be on track to revamping its range of Mac Pro workstations, while the announcement could come as soon as June 7 (at WWDC 2010). It names Intel as the source of the rumor, citing the company’s warning that distribut...

7 May 2010
10:27 GMT

Dell Refreshes Server Lineup with X7500-Powered Solutions

A number of significant announcements have been made recently on the server market, with both AMD and Intel increasing the number of cores inside their latest server processors. While AMD was the first to announce its 8 and 12-core Opterons, Intel followed quickly with the introduction of its latest Xeon 7500 CPUs, d...

31 March 2010
05:25 GMT

Intel Trumpets the Xeon 7500 Series of Eight-Core Server Processors

Just two weeks after it made the formal introduction of its quad-core and six-core Xeon 5600 processing units, and in the wake of AMD's Magny Cours, Intel has once again grabbed the microphone to announce what it describes as the largest performance leap in Intel Xeon processor history. This leap comes in the fo...

31 March 2010
02:53 GMT

EVGA Launches Classified SR-2 dual-LGA1366 Mainboard

In addition to the consumer—oriented six-core Gulftown central processing unit, Intel has also released its new set of Xeon processors, namely the Xeon 5600 series of quad-core and six-core chips. This, of course, means that motherboard makers have been working on platforms designed to support the new chips. Ea...

17 March 2010
07:02 GMT

Intel's Six-Core and Quad-Core Xeon 5600 CPUs Debut

The Gulftown may be Intel's first consumer-oriented six-core central processing unit, but this is not the case for the server processor market. Such multi-core processors are rather extensively used in data canters and high performance computers. Aiming to expand its server offering with a new line of better and...

16 March 2010
05:27 GMT

Dual-Xeon EVGA W555 Motherboard Detailed

EVGA was revealed to have been working on a dual-socked motherboard at the start of January, but, other than a few pictures and what could be deduced from them, the company didn't exactly shower the media with details on the board. More recently, however, it seems that the folks over at Bit-tech.net have been ge...

28 January 2010
10:04 GMT

Leaked Doc from Intel Reveals Launch Date for Westmere Xeon

Even the IT industry must be feeling the influence of the impending planetary alignment that will occur in 2012. Already, its effects have begun to show, as company leaks gravitate more and more towards the Internet, with docs detailing future releases even slipping away from the Santa Clara-based chip giant. The lea...

15 December 2009
05:57 GMT

3.33GHz Quad-Core Mac Pros Now Available

As expected, Apple has again widened the gap between its all-in-one iMac and the powerful Mac Pro, adding a new 3.33GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon upgrade option (for an extra $1,200). Additional 2TB hard drives can also be included with the Mac Pro, as well as Apple’s Xserves. According to recently published report...

7 December 2009
03:37 GMT

Intel Core i9 Chip Supposedly Sold Through eBay

One would think that hardware developers would do their best to disclose as little information as possible concerning their upcoming releases. Still, not long after the pictures of an alleged Radeon HD 5670 motherboard somehow found their way to the Internet, one of Intel's products seems to have suffered a simi...

4 December 2009
03:00 GMT

Next Mac Pro Getting Intel’s 6-Core Xeon Gulftown (Rumor)

A tech-based Polish website has published a test of the Intel Xeon Gulftown CPU a bit too early, according to Hardmac, which cites its own sources as saying that the 6-core, 32 nm processor is to be employed by future Mac Pros. The Polish website PCLab released a test of the Intel Xeon Gulftown, a future CPU sporti...

30 November 2009
04:20 GMT


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