Intel Xeon 5500 Series drives new workstation launches
Published Fri 1 May 2009
The hotly anticipated launch of Intel's Xeon 5500 Series processor has brought with it a range of new powerful workstations from the major workstation manufacturers.
Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, and Lenovo have all announced new workstations based on the Xeon processor, codenamed Nehalem.
The new chip, which features four physical CPU cores as standard, promises new levels of performance in multithreaded simulation and rendering applications.
Almost identical in architecture to Intel's Core i7, the Xeon 5500 Series platform primarily differentiates itself by being able to support two processors in a single workstation.
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