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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (160022)	2/25/2002 4:29:10 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<font color=blue>(AnandTech) Intel's E7500 Chipset: Dual Channel DDR for Xeon anandtech.com Excellent overview of the new Plumas chipset, a.k.a. Intel E7500 Server Chipset. I'd like to add that the E7500 also has a number of firsts for Intel: - First chipset to support PCI-X. 64-bit, 133 MHz, 1.0 GB/sec per PCI-X channel. And the E7500 chipset can support up to six of these channels. - First chipset to support P64H2, a PCI-X hub that was originally developed for the 870 McKinley chipset. - First chipset from Intel to support dual DDR channels. - First server chipset from Intel that will directly challenge ServerWorks' chipsets, at least in the 2-way server segment. - First chipset from Intel to support the new HubLink 1.5 and 2.0 interfaces. (HubLink is Intel's proprietary chip-to-chip interconnect. All of Intel's 800-series chipsets up to now have supported HubLink 1.0.) Unfortunately, Anand doesn't have any performance tests yet. But he says that once he gets back from IDF, he'll get started on the tests. My expectation is that the performance of the E7500, together with the HyperThreading of the new Xeon, will convince Anand to switch his custom Web site servers back from AMD to Intel. ;-) Tenchusatsu