With more multimedia instructions than its Pentium II predecessor - including the low-end Celeron and high-end Xeon PII incarnations - the company claims the PIII will greatly improve Internet usage. Intel takes the wraps off its latest processor...
One of the most important components to be unveiled this week is the UltraSparc IIIi processor, the spearhead in Sun's defence against low-priced machines sporting Intel Xeon processors. The UltraSparc IIIi is built by Texas Instruments on a new...
By contrast, the 1.5 GHz chips released in June that come with 6MB of cache sell for $4,227. Meanwhile, Intel chips based on the x86 architecture, such as the Pentium 4 and the Xeon chip, account for more than 90 per cent of computer...
And in the most recent Top500 list, 45 per cent of machines used Intel's Xeon and 12 per cent used Intel's Itanium 2. And Linux is popular on clusters, too.number two system "Thunder", California Digital's 4,096-processor machine built for the...
Although Xeon server processors will begin using the Core microarchitecture when the Woodcrest model arrives in the third quarter, they won't sport the Core brand the way desktop PCs do, Chandrasekher said.
Intel's new Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processor, introduced in June, is now competitive with Opteron both on performance and on electrical power consumption but analysts agree AMD won't be pushed out of the market soon.