Intel Pentium D for servers?
Intel is expected to announce next week that its Pentium D can now be sold with a new chipset–the Intel E7230–that has features best suited for entry-level servers. Interesting news for the low end servermarket. The article also stated that Intel has 15 dual-core projects going on, which is interesting because only the Pentium D and Xtreme Edition are on the market. Now enthusiasts have 15 new chips to look forward to!
Code-named Mukilteo, the chipset is the follow-on to Intel’s Copper River, which is commonly used in workstations. The E7230 comes with the ability to handle 64-bit operating systems such as the Windows XP x64 Edition from Microsoft, advanced dynamic computer memory, faster data transfers via PCI Express and software that emulates storage through the redundant array of independent disks (more commonly known as RAID).
The chipsets will sell for $36 apiece when PC makers buy more than 1,000 of them. Pentium D chips retail for $530, $316, $241 in speeds of 3.2GHz, 3GHz and 2.8GHz respectively.
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