Paul and all, MPR discusses Merced's 460GX chipset in recent Sept. 13 issue.
Most of the content is technical stuff, like a peak memory bandwidth of 4.2 GB/sec ("twice what we expect of the Merced bus" according to MPR), ECC on memory and system buses, DRAM chip-kill, error scrubbing, 2.1 GB/sec of I/O bandwidth, and other goodies fit for a server. But the last paragraph sums up the benefits quite nicely:
With its greater memory capacity, improved bandwidth, and greater I/O support, the 460GX offers a big step forward from Intel's existing four-processor chip set, making it well suited to the higher performance of Merced. Along with the 460GX, Intel is also developing a four-processor motherboard code-named Lion. With these off-the-shelf technologies, OEMs will be able to deploy powerful Merced workstations and servers with little upfront investment. We expect many system makers to take advantage of this opportunity, resulting in a plethora of relatively inexpensive Merced boxes by the end of next year.
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