I know you didn't post this Tony, that imbecile Dan did. He's wrong again. Intel offers a 900MHz large cache P3 Xeon. Of course there could be a change next week...
Elmer, thanks for pointing that out. I thought I did also in my post (about the 900 MHz, 2 MB cache chip that still gets $3,000 each). Did SI truncate it on me? Weird.
EDIT: It didn't truncate anything. The $3K 900 MHz Xeon mention is there (in post #161560).
From Fallope's post:
The Xeon will be based on Intel's NetBurst architecture, and will feature 1MB on-chip Level 3 cache. They are expected to clock in at speeds of 1.4GHz, 1.5GHz and 1.6GHz.
The push by Unisys and IBM is expected to be the most serious attempt to date to push Wintel products into the high-end market dominated by mainframes and powerful servers running Unix. Intel has had little luck gaining traction in the space so far. However, the entry of IBM into the market (Unisys has been working in the space for some time), may be a sign that the space will get more attention.
The IBM one is the one we've seen a lot of hype about here, with all the RAS features heretofore only seen on IBM's mainframes or big Unix machines. I think the IBM goes to 16 way. The Unisys, which who knows how many they ever sell, should be up to 32. May sound dumb, but by far the most important thing you can say about a server chip is not the clock speed or other specs, but who designs it into their products, and how they present it. IBM with serious RAS is as good as it gets.
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