Intel to use Pentium IV dualcore in servers (XEONS)

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Dualcore XEON

Does this show that AMD's server market percentage is making a big enough in-road now (I think Quarter 1 sales showed AMD with nearly 30% of the four way sales) that Intel realized that they must get out a dualcore anything in the server market before 2006?

The scalability for multiple dualcore Intel's D's without the hypertransport links is going to be interesting.

Edit: Apparently the dualcore design is based off the dualcore Pentium IV's already out. That is a big change from previous times when XEON's, though similar to the Pentium IV, had special tweaks for server systems, etc. Interesting.

 

[Hanpan]

Intels low end server products have long featured desktop CPU's.

More recently look at the Dell 400sc and 420SC.

If you want to go further back you will find many products based on the p2 and p3.

THis is nothing new. Dual core Xeons will come out early next year and as always will be suplemented on the low end by the desktop dual cores: IE the pentium D