With development ahead of schedule, Intel Corporation today announced it is accelerating the availability of dual-core, hyper-threaded Intel Xeon processors and Intel Xeon processors MP. The new processors will help improve server responsiveness, speed and multi-tasking by allowing software to manage information from up to four “brains” per Intel processor. In addition, Intel has begun a broad evaluation program of thousands of dual-core platforms for software developers and enterprise customers.
“As they did with dual-core PC processors earlier this year, Intel engineers have executed exquisitely, and because of that we’ll bring our dual-core Intel Xeon processor platforms to the marketplace well ahead of schedule,” said Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s Server Platforms Group in the press release.
Originally due in 2006, Intel plans to introduce the dual-core Intel Xeon processor MP, codenamed “Paxville,” for servers with four or more processors later in 2005. Paxville will provide more than 60 percent better performance over previous generations and will use the Intel E8500 chipset, which has been architected for dual-core performance and was introduced earlier this year.
For dual processor servers, Intel plans to ship a premium dual-core Intel Xeon processor, codenamed “Paxville DP” in 2005. Paxville DP will deliver up to 50 percent improved performance over previous generations and will use the Intel E7520 chipset.
Paxville DP is targeted at early adopters and evaluators of dual-core technology and is to be followed by a broader family of dual-core Intel Xeon processor-based platforms, codenamed “Bensley” for servers and “Glidewell” for workstations, in the first quarter of 2006. Bensley and Glidewell are targeted to complete an extremely aggressive transition to dual-core top to bottom in Intel’s entire server and workstation line-up.
Both 64-bit Paxville and Paxville DP processors will utilize Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, allowing a single dual-core processor to run four threads simultaneously. The platforms will also include enhanced security features such as Execute Disable Bit and improved power management with Demand Based Switching.
Intel has 17 multi-core projects under development and expects more than 85 percent of its server volume exiting 2006 to be multi-core processors. In addition to the Intel Xeon processors due in 2005, Intel began shipping the dual-core Intel Pentium D processor for uni-processor servers in July 2005 and remains on track to begin shipping dual-core Intel Itanium processors by the end of the year.
Intel’s evaluation program, which began today, will ultimately deliver thousands of dual-core platforms based on Intel Pentium D processors, Intel Xeon processors, Intel Xeon processors MP and Intel Itanium processors to early adopter customers and software developers through 2005 and into 2006.
IT evaluation cycles often take six to nine months, and evaluation systems are critical for IT managers to begin testing new technologies as early as possible. Having access to pre-production and production systems will allow IT managers to evaluate performance, test compatibility with in-house applications and determine future deployment plans.
To help software developers tune their applications to take full advantage of a multi-threaded processing environment, the evaluation systems also ship with a full suite of Intel Software Development Products consisting of threading tools, compilers, performance analyzers and performance libraries. Additional information is available at http://www.intel.com/software
As the Foo Fighters once sang…
“Woo-Hoo”!
is this the new G6 ??
Or has Pontiac stolen all that thunder ?
Could we have the moronic “Mactel” nay-sayers come forward please. We would like to see what idiocy looks like on your faces, you know, for future reference.
How hot? Too hot for two in a 1U box? We wonders, yes we wonders. But we be too lazy to research it for ourselves!
Hmmm.. ahead of schedule. There’s something IBM or Motorola know nothing about. Steve Jobs switch is looking more and more like the smartest move he’s made yet.
” . . . software to manage information from up to four “brains” per Intel processor.”
Yeh-heh-hessss. Remember de old days, when we never thought we’d hear the words “Intel” and “brains” in de same sentence? I mean, it was kind of like mentioning “Jessica Simpson” and “intelligence” in de same breath. Or “Gorog” and “Slim-Fast”.
But with the Apple deal in de works it’s now okay for us Mac fans to give Intel their props. Yeh-heh-hessss. My, how times have changed.
Irony: It’s a powerful tool. Kind of like de Mac itself.
Or Bill Gates.
Hey, I keed de rich and flaccid.
C´mon Steve is not going to bring out anything early. Everyting for Steve is timed around some trade fair where he can make his grandstanding, ego-stroking on-stage “and one more thing” appearance.
So when is the earliest we could see somthing? Jan 2006 at Mac World in San Francisco or ???? But that would be too soon…?
foo fighters or blur
It was Blur – “Song 2.”
Jobs will not bring out the new Mactels until Leopard is ready. It’s not ready yet but is progressing along.
ETA 2nd Q of 06 for Leopard Mactel Powerbooks.
“As the Foo Fighters once sang…
“Woo-Hoo”!”
Blur also sang “Woo-Hoo” in Song 2
“Shipping before the end of 2005” does not necessarily mean volume shipments, i.e., thousands of chips shipped per day.
I still believe we won’t see Intel dual core based Mac desktops (no matter what they’re called) announced at MWSF. I will be surprised if it happens — very pleasantly surprised, but still surprised.
Larry B: I rather see Steve Jobs ego-stroking trip than Balmer’s chimp dance any day of the week!!
Even more when that means we’re going to benefit from more powerful Macs!
Steve Jobs did say at the WWDC conference that the new Mac’s using Intel chips, apart from his own up on stage and kept a secret until nearer to the end, will be availabe ‘by this time next year’, yes he did say same about PPC running at 3Ghz, but we’re not talking IBM here.
My bet is on Apple Expo, Paris at the mid to end of September with ship dates for new Mactels. Reading the above article the chip mentioned is aimed at the server end of computing, so the chip above is likely to be in the Xserve line.
So unless your main Mac is an Xserve the above announcement is more like ‘hmm..yeah, I wanna new desktop/laptop with Intel inside now!’
I love the Keynotes! Watching Steve Jobs talk about Apple is always a highlight for me.
Bring it on Steve, cant wait to hear what you have to say!
Oh and just for the record, many many years ago Steve told me this new iBook SE 466Mhz was the shizzle and would keep me computing for years to come (something along those lines), and you know what?! Im posting on it right now and still using it for everything I do on a computer. Not many PC people can say that.
iBook Clamshell forever, lol.
<<So when is the earliest we could see somthing? Jan 2006 at Mac World in San Francisco or ???? But that would be too soon…?>>
No, it wouldn’t. I’ve been saying on the AOL AAPL Board that Jobs intends to bring MacTels to market in February after an announcement at MWSF in January.
The reasoning is simple. The closer we get to Apple’s published MacTel release date, the more buyers will tend to delay a purchase. By making an early surprise announcement (with immediate shipping) Apple will negate any purchase delay effects.
They could ship in November if they wanted to. The only reason for a delay beyond that date is to allow more time for developers to port their apps for it. From June to January is lots of time for developers that used Apple’s X-Code tools to upgrade and test prior to release. Those that used Code Warrior will take another year to make the transition.
Clamshell, lemme join ya with my 366 graphite iBook.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” /> Als it won’t run Tiger (no firewire) but Panther is purring smoothinly on ythis machine. Nothing can beat its airport reception…
Um, we don’t want the hot (temperature-wise) Netburst architecture Xeon chips, do we? I thought we’re waiting for new Pentium M-based arkie due in the second half of 2006.
because soon they’ll be history.
Xeons, I mean, not Intel!
Pentium M is in, PentXeum is out.
The only Xeon that would ever end up in a Mac is one that’s really a Pentium M Xeon, not these pre-M architectures.
Clamshell, Mollusk…
I am here with my 333Mhz PB with only 192Megs of RAM running Panther. Sometimes I wish I had some more memory, but otherwise, it works fine for my needs.
Quad PowerMacTels –because nobody can’t get processors to go any faster without burning them up
Also because everything else will have a dual core processor and the PowerMac will need something to set it apart.
I have it on good word that the high end dual core Intel chips will cost about $600-699 a piece, for a max of about $1400 for a quad PowerMac.
Better start looking at paying about $5000-$6000 for the new PowerMacTels.
Oh look at this, funny as heck
http://www.bpninc.com/evideo/video_mac_hi.mov
Does multi-core mean that we’ve reached the peak of clock speeds?
Aww, my iBook clamshell 366 graphite got soup all over it, by accident of course, and I got at the time a new Powerbook through the insurance for $90.00, which was just the excess.
I am still using that same Powerbook to this day in it purrs on Tiger.
To: Mollusk and the other oldies users…
Tiger will indeed run on any of your ibooks / Powerbooks, the only thing you need is an image, or firewire. My buddy has a 366Mhz Indigo Clamshell with firewire and I installed it for him off of my iBook, hehe.
Although Tiger runs on these fine, it is slow, and with all OS X’s graphic intensive layers I found it too slow when multiple apps were running.
So I moved back to OS 9 and honestly I like it more. Pretty much everything is the same as OS X, without the eye-candy. Most things work the same and it is way fast. Cheers.