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IBM readies its first quad-core servers
News IBM next week will begin selling its first servers with quad-core processors, utilizing Intel's "Clovertown" Xeon 5300 models. Bensley-based systems can be upgraded with the Clovertown chips, though using high-end chips will mean an increase in...
[November 10, 2006, 7:50]
Quad-core processors get an airing
News Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday, Clovertown for servers and Kentsfield for PCs, directing attention toward the future during a more troubled present. Gelsinger also showed two nearer-term server processors that both fit into the...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
AMD and Intel battle for next-gen servers
News For Intel, it's "Clovertown", a quad-core Xeon already on the market. Intel plans two new Clovertown models at either end of the power consumption spectrum, said Tom Kilroy, a co-general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
[March 1, 2007, 8:23]
Intel reclaims place in Google servers
News But in late 2006, Intel's new dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" and quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors helped Intel reclaim some server chip market share and put major price pressure on AMD. AMD expects that its fortunes will be boosted by...
[January 26, 2007, 8:31]
AMD looks for fix during rough year
News While it's too early to ascertain the performance of those processors… they will probably be extremely competitive with Barcelona, and expected price cuts on the older Clovertown processors will give Intel's customers two options for quad-core...
[June 20, 2007, 18:23]
AMD makes bold quad-core claims
News Clovertown "has allowed Intel to put some pricing pressure on AMD. After years of being outplayed by AMD, Intel beat its rival to the punch by releasing its quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processor for servers in November.
[January 24, 2007, 6:17]
Intel shows off quad-core chip
News Rattner showed off a computer running two Clovertown processors. Clovertown, a four-core processor, will start shipping to computer manufacturers late this year and hit the market in early 2007. Clovertown will be made for dual-processor servers.p>
[February 13, 2006, 8:05]
AMD reveals Barcelona's strengths
News AMD did not test Barcelona's performance against one of Intel's quad-core Clovertown Xeon processors, but Allen said Barcelona "will be the highest-performing x86 chip out there. It will blow away Clovertown".
[May 22, 2007, 10:58]
Apple launches eight-core Mac
News Users can choose between an eight-core, which uses two quad-core "Clovertown" processors; and a quad-core machine with two dual-core "Woodcrest" processors. Apple has launched a Mac Pro with two Intel quad-core processors working in tandem as a...
[April 5, 2007, 13:52]
Intel to go quad-core this year
News Intel's quad-core Xeon server processor is code-named Clovertown, and its desktop processor Kentsfield. Intel quad-core server and desktop processors will arrive this year instead of next, Chief Executive Paul Otellini said Wednesday, firing a new...
[July 20, 2006, 8:50]
AMD: Quad-core Opteron faster at virtualisation
News Intel's "Clovertown" version of Xeon houses two dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processors into a single package to reach the quad-core goal this November. AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona and due in mid-2007, includes...
[October 11, 2006, 10:00]
NEC shifts resilient servers to quad-core chips
News Intel's dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" and quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors both use the chipmaker's newer Core architecture, which has helped the company recover market share lost to AMD.
[April 2, 2007, 9:41]
Rackable puts data centre in a box
News Rackable's Concentro uses Intel's quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors, two of which can fit into each of the 1,200 servers. Rackable Systems has begun selling a data centre packed into a modular storage container, getting to market ahead of...
[March 27, 2007, 9:50]
AMD's quad-core Barcelona coming in August
News Then, squeezing two of those silicon chips into a single electronics package gave Intel its Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" quad-core model toward the end of 2006. AMD in August will begin selling its quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors, models that...
[July 2, 2007, 8:26]
Sun and Intel pair up on Xeon-based servers
News Sun pushed Intel out of its x86 server line in favor of AMD's Opteron in early 2005, saying Intel's chips were slower and more power-hungry, but Intel's new dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" and quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors have...
[January 22, 2007, 7:55]
Sun announces smaller blade chassis
News Silicon Graphics introduced Altix XE1300 compute cluster systems loaded with Intel's Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" quad-core processors. Sun on Tuesday announced its new Sun Blade 8000 P chassis, a smaller model geared for high-performance technical...
[November 15, 2006, 9:53]
Barcelona may not cure AMD's complaint
News It will blow away Clovertown". We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said. AMD's quad-core Opteron processor is finally ready, but it's far from clear that this is the product that...
[September 10, 2007, 9:28]
SGI and Microsoft team up on computing clusters
News The XE310 also accommodates Intel's quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processor. Supercomputing specialist SGI has become Microsoft's latest partner, signing up to support a version of Windows that can farm out computing jobs to a cluster of lower...
[January 11, 2007, 8:41]
Intel to announce low-end server chips
News By doubling two dual-core processors in one package, Intel is designing quad-core processors including "Kentsfield" for PCs and "Clovertown" for servers, that it plans to begin selling in the fourth quarter.
[September 26, 2006, 12:50]
Barcelona delay could hurt AMD
News Arora noted that the Woodcrest platform and, subsequently, the Clovertown quad-core platform that Intel launched in November last year, had helped Intel "get back in the game". Rumours that AMD is planning to delay the launch of its upcoming quad...
[June 13, 2007, 15:45]
