Dell To Use Quad-Core Processors
Dell has announced that it will start offering its servers and workstations running on quad-core Intel processors from next week. Its PowerEdge rack and blade style servers, and Precision workstations will be the first one to run on the Quad-Core Xeon 5300 processor from Intel. The quad core chip is the most powerful chip till date as we have seen from the processing speed of the machines launched earlier this week. The company claims that quad cores in a dual-socket server configuration can deliver 63 percent better computing performance, and 40 percent better performance per watt, than dual-core processors in four sockets. Dell will be ready to offer the AMD processor along with its Intel-powered models when AMD introduces its own quad core chips.
“We actually see, with the introduction of our new quad-core systems, that this is the beginning of the end of the four-socket marketplace over the next three or four years,” said Neil Hand, vice president of worldwide enterprise marketing for Dell.
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