Intel Xeon is Intel’s series of x-86-server systems, and recently the first Xeon-CPU equipped with dual cores named Paxville was launched. Another Xeon-model in Intel’s future plans has been named Whitefield, being Intel’s first Xeon-CPU with four cores intended for use in server-systems with four or more CPU’s, Xeon MP. Intel now announces that developing Whitefield has been discontinued, and at the same time the launch of Montecito, Intel’s Itanium-processor with dual cores, has been postponed. The reason to Whitefield being thrashed should be that Intel intend to launch another Xeon instead of the Whitefield, named Tigerton.
Tigerton is supposed to be launched during 2007 will among others use a more efficient and better performing bus to bind the CPU with the rest of the system and other CPU’s in a multi-processor configuration. A bottleneck Intel has had a long time at the server market, where AMD has had big successes with their Opteron and its HyperTransport bus.
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