Hey, weren’t these Intel quad-core processors due in the first quarter of 2007? Now Intel will not only roll out its quad-core Xeon processors in the fourth quarter of this year, it will follow that with a low-voltage version in 2007’s first quarter.
https://gizmodo.com/intels-next-trick-quad-core-processors-183918
These four Clovertown chips will constitute the Xeon 53xx family, arriving in speeds of 1.6GHz, 1.86GHz, 2.33GHz and 2.66GHz. They’re all flying, too, running on a 1066MHz front-side bus, and contain a whopping 8MB of L2 cache.
Geez, isn’t this processor parade speeding up tenfold? And, our only objection to those Clovertown chips was their power-hungriness, and now Intel solves that problem, too. Does this leave AMD completely in the dust? Discuss.
Intel preps four-chip four-core Xeon Q4 debut [Reg Hardware]
