Otellini pointed to a boost from processors that power notebooks and highlighted the launch of the company's new dual-core Xeon processors ahead of schedule and the first shipment of chips built on its 65-nanometer process technology.
Intel Virtualization Technology - code-named Vanderpool and now emerging in server processors - accelerates some operations and makes it possible to run Windows on Xen without modifications to Windows that otherwise would be necessary.
All Rev F models have dual processing cores; systems built for Rev F chips will also accommodate quad-core successors due in 2007. For higher-end systems with four processors, Intel has begun selling its dual-core "Tulsa" Xeon processor, which...
AMD this week announced its new "Rev F" line of dual-core Opteron processors, which in 2007 will be supplanted by quad-core models that plug into the same "Socket F". Intel released a Core-based Xeon called Woodcrest in June but that processor is...
Sun will also sell servers using Intel's "Tigerton" Xeon, quad-core chips due in the third quarter of 2007 and designed for four-processor servers. John Fowler, Sun's executive vice president for servers, said: "Woodcrest and Clovertown are...
Intel's 'Clovertown' processor, which squeezes two Woodcrest chips into a quad-core package, "made a meaningful contribution to their business in the fourth quarter. Quad core is starting to happen fairly quickly", McCarron said.