Moving aggressively ahead with its plans to field a full range of dual core microprocessors, Intel has demonstrated two upcoming Xeon server platforms with the new devices.
At its Intel Spring Analyst meeting in New York on Thursday, Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprises Group showed off two working servers running upcoming dual-core implementations of Xeon code-named Dempsey and Paxville, respectively.
Dempsey is part of a dual-core server platform called Bensley, which features Intel's Hyperthreading technology along with its new high-speed I/O acceleration channel. "We will ship thousands of seed systems to OEMs and the ISV community, in the second half of this year," Talwalkar said in an interview after the event. The platform will officially launch during 2006, he added.
The Paxville dual-core part can be fitted into existing motherboards made for single-core Xeon processors. All that's required to get the CPU up and running is a BIOS update.
"This processor just arrived in terms of silicon fairly recently," Talwalkar said. "We're going to be sampling to OEMs so they can start their qualification cycles. Remember, this processor drops into systems that are shipping today, so it'll take much less time to get them running than if you were building brand new systems. We'll ship seed systems to the marketplace in the second half of this year. We'll have an OEM ramp-up in early 2006."
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