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Never Mind Dempsey, Here Are The Woodcrest Numbers
News The numbers overshadowed the expected release of Intel's Dempsey processor, which won't have much time to make an impact before systems based on the Woodcrest chip touted in the benchmarks arrive in the third quarter.
[May 24, 2006, 10:25]
IBM Readies Its First Quad-core Servers
News The company announced five models, each with two processor sockets, and promised a significant performance increase over those systems with the dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processors. Quad-core processors have four processing engines; Intel's...
[November 10, 2006, 7:50]
Intel Reveals Second-gen Dual-core Details
News Code names for those second-generation dual-core chips are Conroe, for desktop machines; Merom, for laptops; and Woodcrest, for lower-end servers with two processor sockets, Otellini said. His presentation indicated that Conroe could arrive about...
[May 6, 2005, 9:05]
Chipmakers Admit: Your Power May Vary
News Woodcrest will be a major boost to Intel's server division when it comes to performance, and Intel believes it will retake the lead in this new metric of performance per watt, he said. Intel is getting set to release Woodcrest, a new server...
[June 12, 2006, 10:35]
Barcelona Delay Could Hurt AMD
News AMD was consistently gaining market [share] until the second half of last year when Intel's Woodcrest platform started ramping up and basically stemmed the growth that AMD achieved in the x86 server market," he said.
[June 13, 2007, 15:45]
AMD To Unveil 'Rev F' Opteron Chips
News With Woodcrest models of Xeon, Intel already moved to DDR2's sequel, FB-DIMM (fully buffered dual inline memory modules), which is based on DDR2 today but provides more capacity. Intel regrouped and has just released its Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest...
[August 15, 2006, 9:05]
IBM Embraces Opteron Across The Server Line
News Woodcrest in waiting Intel is fighting back with its "Woodcrest" Xeon 5100 family for dual-processor servers, which improve performance while reducing power consumption. I've been very impressed with Woodcrest.
[August 2, 2006, 9:35]
Quad-core Processors Get An Airing
News Woodcrest had been scheduled for the fourth quarter, but Intel was able to pull in the schedule by one quarter, Skaugen said in an interview. Those speeds, combined with Dempsey's 667MHz memory and Woodcrest's 1333MHz memory - and the sooner-than...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
Intel Shows Off Quad-core Chip
News At around the same time, after all, Intel will release Woodcrest, a dual core server chip based around the same Merom-Conroe-Tigerton-Clovertown architecture. A large financial institution is currently running servers on an experimental basis with...
[February 13, 2006, 8:05]
SGI Emerges From Bankruptcy Protection
News But McKenna said Intel has the winning processor in that market today with its new "Woodcrest" Xeon chips. We looked at that very strongly in making our decision on our Xeon 'Woodcrest' cluster solution.
[September 20, 2006, 9:25]
AMD Climbs Supercomputing League Table
News AMD has gained ground on Intel in a list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, but Intel's new Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processor has quickly carved out a place for itself. But Intel's Woodcrest processor, which has helped the chipmaker reverse...
[November 14, 2006, 8:41]
Intel: Glory Days Lie Ahead For Montecito
News A few weeks ago, you launched a new Xeon processor, the Woodcrest model, which is a pretty big redesign. In the scheme of things, which is more important for you, Woodcrest or Montecito? We will look back at this as the inflection point of the...
[July 19, 2006, 15:40]
Photos: Formula One's Villeneuve Puts Spin On Intel
News To drum up interest in its latest dual-core Xeon Processor 5100, previously codenamed ‘Woodcrest’, Intel held a special Formula One style event in London’s Hyde Park on Tuesday. Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s Server Platforms Group, took...
[June 13, 2006, 17:40]
Intel Unveils New Low-power Chips
News It will be the basis for three new 65nm dual-core products to be launched in the second half of 2006 - Woodcrest for servers, Conroe for desktops and Merom for mobile use. At the opening keynote at Intel's autumn 2005 developer forum in San...
[August 23, 2005, 18:15]
HP ProLiant ML370 G5 review
Reviews As with the Dell PowerEdge1950, HP now supports the latest Intel dual-core Xeon 'Woodcrest' chips, and our review system came with a single Xeon 5140 clocked at 2.33MHz with a 1333MHz frontside bus (FSB).
[February 26, 2007, 8:57]
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 Prepares To Reveal All
News The chips are code-named Merom (for notebooks), Conroe (for desktops) and Woodcrest (for servers). Intel plans to provide details on a new generation of multicore processors at its biannual developer conference in two weeks - and in the process...
[August 12, 2005, 9:20]
Dell PowerEdge 1950 review
Reviews The review system came with Woodcrest chips fitted (now referred to as the Xeon 5000 and 5100 series), which are both faster and more energy-efficient than earlier Intel dual-core designs. The PE 1950 is very solid and well built.
[February 22, 2007, 12:20]
Gateway Latest Opteron Convert
News New "Woodcrest" Xeon 5100 processors have helped Intel reverse server market share losses, but AMD still has attracted new customers. Gateway has become the latest computer maker to begin selling x86 servers using AMD's Opteron processor.
[November 8, 2006, 10:31]
Intel Launch Event To Include Merom
News The company has already launched the Woodcrest server chip, and released several details about the Conroe desktop chip, both of which address markets where Intel had lagged behind the performance of AMD's processors.
[July 24, 2006, 8:50]
