14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's Xeon E5026900 v2 family of processors relies on LGA 2011 Z79 motherboards to work and includes chips with up to 12 cores. Those chips have been chosen by Silicon Mechanics.
Not really shocking. After all, the processors (Ivy Bridge-EP) came out earlier this week, alongside the Core i7 Extreme Edition (Ivy Bridge-E).
So, Silicon Mechanics, like any other enterprise system / workstation builder allied with Intel, is making this move.
In its press release, however, Silicon Mechanics doesn't detail any of the new systems, which, I suppose, means that it offers a wider variety of choices than usual.
And by choices I mean case form factors, CPU-memory combinations, storage capacity ranges, etc.
I'll leave it to enterprise customers to make calls and choose what they like best, unless they are aiming elsewhere on the Ivy Bridge-EP front.