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3.16 GHz Yorkfield based Xeon to launch soon |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Thursday, 29 January 2009 03:57 |
Q1 2009
Intel plans to launch a faster edition of its current Yorkfield
45nm Core 2 based Xeon and this new CPU will now work at 3.16GHz. Currently the
fastest available Yorkfield based Xeon is X3370 at 3.0GHz clock 12MB cache and
FSB 1333 was selling for $525, but as of 18th January sells for $317.
The new faster version is Xeon Quad core X3380 that will
work at 3.16GHz, has the same FSB 1333 and comes with 12MB cache. This one will
be selling for $525 at launch in Q1 and we are quite sure that this won’t
happen in January, but this launch should happen before 29th of march
before Intel launches its Nehalem based Xeons.
We sure hope that Nehalem will change some pricing in server
renting space as Quad core Kentsfield still costs an arm and leg, not to mention
Yorkfield and higher clock CPUs.
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