Within 2 days of announcement of the AMD Opteron 12 core Intel announced a 8 core Xeon processor that is aimed at high performance server market like the AMD chip. These new Nehalem-EX Xeon 7500 line of server chips have been designed for x86 multiprocessor servers. The chip has 8 cores and can execute 16 threads. Servers designing in these processors can have up to 256 of these. Just imagine the amount of computing power that makes available! To accommodate such high performance designs the memory bandwidth and capacity have been enhanced several orders of magnitude better than earlier generation chips. 4.6 and 8 core versions are going to be available.
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