Intel's hyper-threaded Xeon processor for dual processor servers


Intel Corp. announced early this week its first dual-core, hyper-threaded Intel Xeon processor for dual processor servers. According to the press release, this new processor helps to improve the performance of today's dual processor, 64-bit servers by up to 50 percent. It runs at 2.80GHz with an 800MHz system bus and 2MB of Level 2 cache per core and will use the Intel E7520 chipset. Since each core is equipped with its own cache, explained the company, the amount of traffic on the system bus is reduced and each core has faster access to data.