Intel Trickles Out Dual-Core Servers
Intel has begun its transition to dual-core server hardware by handing out a few dual-core machines. The programs goal is to seed servers based on its dual-core Xeon DP Bensly chip and Xeon MP Paxville processors to businesses.
The new servers “have already started trickling out,” said Shannon Poulin, an enterprise marketing director in Intel’s server group. By the end of the year, “We’re going to aggressively seed thousands of units or maybe tens of thousands. It gets customers there?and ready for the technology. It greases the skids, so to say.”
Intel plans to shift its server lines to the dual-core processor/platform strategy quickly in 2006. It will follow the Xeon DP and MP chips, which will be dubbed with 5000 series model numbers and 7000 series numbers, respectively, with less power hungry dual-core Xeon chips for rack-mount machines and server blades.
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