Intel Debuts New Xeon 5500 Series Processors

by admin March 31, 2009 at 7:14 pm

Apple may have secured them first, but Intel’s 17 newest enterprise-class processors are finally available for all that care to grab them. As we saw yesterday with Lenovo’s announcement, Intel’s freshest Xeon chips (previously referred to as “Nehalem”) are now available to other OEMs and channel partners, and given the depth and breadth of this new class, it’ll probably take awhile for you to fully digest the news. Led by the Xeon 5500 Series, these new chips are hailed as the outfit’s “most revolutionary server processors since addressing the market with the Intel Pentium Pro processor almost 15 years ago” — a pretty bold statement.

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