Intel will introduce its top-end "Tulsa" Xeon processor next week, one of the chip's senior engineers said Tuesday, promising a significant performance boost for servers handling database work.
"Tulsa will be introduced next week at about a 70 percent higher performance rate," compared with its "Paxville MP" predecessor introduced in November, Intel's Jeffrey Gilbert said in a speech at the Hot Chips conference here. His presentation's fine print added more detail, saying the Tulsa launch scheduled for Aug. 29.
Tulsa, a 3.4GHz Xeon "MP" chip that drops into existing servers with four or more processors, is the last chip to use Intel's now all-but-phased-out NetBurst architecture. Intel prefers to direct attention to its new Core architecture--both in terms of performance and performance per watt--but Gilbert adamantly defended the Tulsa design.
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