14 DAY TRIAL // Santa Clara, California-based Intel, the world's leading processor maker, has officially announced the introduction of its highly anticipated Nehalem-EP Xeon processors, delivering a new level of performance for the server and workstation market. Following the official introduction of the new Xeon 5500 series of Xeon processors, Intel has recently released a Product Change Notification to its partners, informing them that it's planning to update its product portfolio by phasing out a few of its older models, including some Yorkfield and Conroe parts.
According to the company's Product Change Notification, customers should place their final orders for the 45nm-based Yorkfield X3350 and X3320, as well as for the 65nm Conroe-based Xeon 3085, 3075 and 3065. All of these Xeon processors were designed with a front side bus of 1333MHz and are based on Intel's previous generation of Core 2-based Xeon processors. However, the world's leading processor vendor is obviously planning to make room for its new processor architecture and its upcoming Xeon server CPUs.
As far as technical specifications go, the Yorkfield chips are designed on Intel's 45nm process technology and are featured with a TDP level of 95Watts. The X3350 model boasts 12MB of L2 cache and is clocked at 2.66GHz, while the X3320 boasts a core speed of 2.5GHz and 6MB of L2 cache. The other 65nm-based Conroes are featured with a TDP level of 65-watts and 4MB of L2 cache. As far as speed is concerned, the Xeon 3085, 3075 and the 3065 are clocked at 3GHz, 2.66GHz and 2.33GHz, respectively.
Intel's customers have been notified to place their final orders for these chips before October 9, while the final ship date for the discontinued Xeons has been set for January 9, 2010. By then, Intel will most likely launch a couple of new Xeon processors, which will leverage the computing performance of the Nehalem microarchitecture.