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To: Paul Engel who wrote (160086)	2/25/2002 2:00:33 PM
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It's Official - Intel Unveils Powerful New Xeon Server Processors dailynews.yahoo.com By Tim McDonald, www.NewsFactor.com Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC - news) has unveiled powerful Xeon server processors that feature new architecture and technology. According to the company, its new processors can boost performance by up to 80 percent over current Intel-based systems. The Xeon is the first chip to use Intel's "hyper-threading" technology -- which allows a single processor to be seen as two processors by the operating system or software -- and its "Netburst" micro-architecture, the first new Intel micro-architecture in the server space since 1995. "This is the micro-architecture we really expect to carry us beyond 10 GHz in the next few years," Intel spokesman Shannon Poulin told NewsFactor. "It's a huge leap forward for us." New Chipset, Too A new chipset, the E7500, also is being introduced and is the first in a family of volume server chipsets, Intel said. The E7500 enables twice the memory bandwidth of previous products. In addition, the Xeon features a larger cache size of 512 KB. The new platform is aimed at the lower end of the dual-processor server market. The new Xeons come in frequencies of 2.2 GHz, 2 GHz and 1.8 GHz and are priced in volume at US$615, $417 and $251, respectively. Server makers Compaq (NYSE: CPQ - news), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL - news), IBM (NYSE: IBM - news) and NEC are expected to announce they will ship platforms based on the new processor in the next few months. 'Huge Leap Forward' Hyper-threading technology was first introduced by Intel last year, but the Xeon is the first product to employ the technology, which duplicates the registers required to make a single processor look like two. Initial tests have shown the chip can significantly improve both the number of simultaneous Web transactions and the number of users that servers can handle, Intel officials said. "Normally, 10 percent is a pretty big deal for a speed bump," Poulin said. "On this particular product, we're seeing anywhere from a 40 percent improvement on [benchmark tests] all the way to 80 percent. It's a huge leap forward in terms of frequency, in terms of performance." 'Netburst' Micro-Architecture The Xeon features Intel's Netburst micro-architecture on its .13 micron manufacturing process. The company first introduced Netburst last year at 1.5 GHz. "As they mature, micro-architectures don't provide as much performance improvement as you add incremental frequency," Poulin said. "So, what you do is you go to a brand-new micro-architecture, which is where we are now, and that puts you on a new trajectory to get more performance improvement out of every frequency jump," he added. "We've already gone up to 2.2 GHz, so we've jumped almost 50 percent in just over a year." IBM Leads Server Market IBM leads the overall server market with a 29 percent market share, according to figures just released by market research firm Gartner. Though IBM's revenue decreased from $13.9 billion in 2000 to $13.6 billion in 2001, its market share increased even as the overall market shrank, according to Gartner. Sun (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) has the second largest market share with 15.4 percent, a 2 percent drop from 2000. Compaq is third with a 13.9 percent share, followed by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HWP - news) with 12.8 percent and Dell with 6.4 percent. However, Compaq is the No. 1 Intel server seller. Overall, according to Gartner, the Intel server market shrank 16.2 percent in 2001, compared with 2000. wbmw