Xeons to reach 3.06GHz this time next year
The Inquirer | at | by Mike
Intel is peforming its usual conjuring trick by offering Xeon processors at megahertz speed a few quarters after desktop Pentium 4s, its latest roadmaps have revealed. And that means that by the second quarter of next year we'll see Xeons at 3.06GHz and supporting both 400MHz and 533MHz front side buses. However, as we've revealed here earlier, its "Gallatin" big memory cache products won't be available to OEMs before Q1 of 2003, leaving a potential Achilles' Hell (sic) for the chip giant that AMD with its Opterons could exploit. Intel's Anvik and Kenai-64 are Gigabit Ethernet designs, the former will give two of these ports on a single chip, while the Kenai-64 is a single port product aimed at the price/performance marketplace.