Intel, armed with a custom-designed motherboard, has reclaimed Google as a server customer after a year watching the search powerhouse give its business to Advanced Micro Devices.
Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and others will announce on Monday in the US the first servers to use Intel Xeon processors augmented with 64-bit extensions, a technology with major long-term implications.
After months of deriding rival AMD's strategy of cramming four cores onto one chip, Intel is set to take that concept two cores further.
IBM is expected to announce on Monday several new servers based on Intel chips, including two Itanium systems and a top-end Xeon system with 32 processors.
Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.
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Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and others will announce on Monday in the US the first servers to use Intel Xeon processors augmented with 64-bit extensions, a technology with major long-term implications.
In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.
Intel demonstrated two quad-core processors Tuesday in the United States, "Clovertown" for servers and "Kentsfield" for PCs, directing attention toward the future during a more troubled present.
Intel is in the midst of beefing up its processor lines for workstations and servers.
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Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.
Intel is in the midst of beefing up its processor lines for workstations and servers.
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Dell has launched its much-anticipated range of servers and desktops based on Intel's quad-core Xeon processor.
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