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Intel Releases new Xeon MP

Neowin · Mar 13, 2002 19:16 EST with -1 comments

Thanks goes to Torment for this one

Intel launched the Xeon MP processor on Tuesday at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany, unveiling the long-awaited design for low-end multiprocessor servers, code-named Foster.

The three versions of the Xeon MP (for "multiprocessor"), designed for servers using four or more processors, clock at 1.4 GHz, 1.5 GHz, and 1.6 GHz. The chips feature three levels of integrated cache memory, adding as much as 1MB of Level 3 cache to the already existing 8KB of Level 1 and 256KB of Level 2 cache.

The 1.4-GHz and 1.5-GHz Xeon MP processors each have 512KB of Level 3 cache. The 1.4-GHz Xeon MP is priced at $1177, and the 1.5-GHz chip at $1980, in 1000-unit quantities. The 1.6-GHz Xeon MP has 1MB of Level 3 cache and is priced at $3692 in 1000-unit

News source: PC WORLD