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Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

...recent upgrade, in August 2010, brought support for Intel's latest 32nm 'Westmere' Xeon processors, the fastest of which offered by Apple is the 6... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Charles McLellan

Intel debuts Xeon E7 family

...processor family. The 18 chips, unveiled on Tuesday, were formerly code-named Westmere-EX and follow on from the Nehalem-EX range of processors. Additionally... Read more

5 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Dell details PowerEdge 12G servers ahead of Xeon E5

...A key differentiator between Intel's Xeon E5 'Romley' processor and its Westmere predecessors is support of the PCI 3.0 communications protocol, allowing for... Read more

28 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
Photos: building a Sandy Bridge PC

Photos: building a Sandy Bridge PC

...the second to be introduced on Intel's 32nm manufacturing process after Westmere. Sandy Bridge is the latest 'tock' in Intel's 'tick-tock' CPU... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Manek Dubash
Sandy Bridge: Intel's next-generation CPU

Sandy Bridge: Intel's next-generation CPU

...Core i3, i5, and i7) processors (a tick). These belong to the Westmere family, which also brought small improvements such as hardware-accelerated AES encryption... Read more

23 September, 2010 by Joachim Kaufmann
Boston Fenway 1580-06

Boston Fenway 1580-06

...the Intel Xeon 7500 series) or the latest eight- and ten-core Westmere-EX chips — now more mundanely known as the Xeon E7-8800 family... Read more

29 September, 2011 by Alan Stevens

eBay taps updated Nimbus flash storage

...of up to 250TB, according to Nimbus. They use Intel Nehalem or Westmere processors. Nimbus's flash storage is done in Raid 5 for efficient... Read more

3 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

AMD eats away at Intel's chip shipment share

...the Xeon. It released the Sandy Bridge-based Xeon E7, formerly codenamed Westmere-EX, at the beginning of April, and this drove shipments in the... Read more

3 August, 2011 by Jack Clark
Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

...product. You have one core, one architecture — Sandy Bridge or Nehalem or Westmere. Intel serves the whole market with almost one product. You have one... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Intel speeds Atom roadmap to fend off ARM

...into production when the node size changes, such as the tick of Westmere on 32nm, then introduce a new architecture on the same node, as... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Enterprises drive Intel to record earnings

Intel's record earnings for its first quarter of 2011 reflect increasing demand from the enterprise and emerging markets Read more

20 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cisco revamp opens up network with FCoE

The company has brought end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet to its network fabric to see datacentres use the communication specification for homogenised networking architectures Read more

31 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Apple abandons servers

...to upgrade the systems with Intel's latest six-core Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) architecture -- which would have been fairly simple to do from an... Read more

8 November, 2010

Intel posts record £7bn quarter, hails 'exciting' tablets

...said in a conference call on Tuesday. "Demand for our high-performance Westmere [32nm] and Nehalem EX processors drove server microprocessor revenue up over 30... Read more

13 October, 2010 by David Meyer
Ponsonby FM 1.0

Ponsonby FM 1.0

...is a local radio station serving the communities of Ponsonby, Grey Lynn, Westmere, Herne Bay and St Marys Bay... as well as every iPhone owner... Read more

20 March, 2011

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