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on Wednesday April 25, @01:04PM
For most of us, one of the most important bits of Intel news this week was not strictly technical. We could compress all the headlines we saw about this excitement into two words: Price Drop! Here's one of the many stories we spotted on this topic.
On the "LATEST and GREATEST" front, HotHardware.com built and tested a rig they described as:
"...one of Intel's workstation-class S5000XVN dual-socket motherboards, coupled to a pair of Xeon X5365 processors, 4GB of Samsung DDR2-667 FBDIMMs, and a GeForce 8800 GTX."
There's lots of pics and specs in their "8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8' Sneak Peek"...
You probably saw this blurb here on Slashdot already: Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus. This story didn't quite make Slashdot's main page, but it shows how the newly-opened bus is creating opportunities for clever third-party hardware design firms. We'll bet there are lots of other smart EEs elsewhere having similar thoughts, which means there are sure to be lots of other performance-enhancing products in the pipeline before long.
Published a week ago but still worth reading: HardwareZone has an article headlined First benchmarks on 45nm.
Meanwhile, our discussion here about Enterprise Clients, hosted by Intel IT guys Alan, John, and John, is up and running. Got some questions for them? They're ready, willing, and able to answer....
"...one of Intel's workstation-class S5000XVN dual-socket motherboards, coupled to a pair of Xeon X5365 processors, 4GB of Samsung DDR2-667 FBDIMMs, and a GeForce 8800 GTX."
There's lots of pics and specs in their "8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8' Sneak Peek"...
You probably saw this blurb here on Slashdot already: Intel Opens Its Front-Side Bus. This story didn't quite make Slashdot's main page, but it shows how the newly-opened bus is creating opportunities for clever third-party hardware design firms. We'll bet there are lots of other smart EEs elsewhere having similar thoughts, which means there are sure to be lots of other performance-enhancing products in the pipeline before long.
Published a week ago but still worth reading: HardwareZone has an article headlined First benchmarks on 45nm.
Meanwhile, our discussion here about Enterprise Clients, hosted by Intel IT guys Alan, John, and John, is up and running. Got some questions for them? They're ready, willing, and able to answer....
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vivin writes "The Inquirer is reporting that Intel has opened up its FSB. Intel did this during IDF 07. What this means is that you can plug non-Intel things into the Intel CPU socket. The article says 'This shows that Intel is willing to take AMD seriously as a competitive threat, and is prepared to act upon it. In addition to this breaking one of the most sacred taboos at Intel, it also hints that engineering now has the upper hand over bureaucracy.'"
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Hi all, my name is Alan and I would like to introduce John and John (no relation). It is our turn in the barrel this week as we dovetail from
the recent discussion around Core Microarchitecture and focus on
enterprise laptops and desktops. We work in Intel's IT department and
want to spend the week relating our experiences, direction and
challenges in managing a large and diverse client environment.
We plan on covering relevant issues around business clients with topics ranging from purchasing considerations, refresh, feature selection all the way through manageability, security, virtualization and everything in between. We'll talk about the good, the bad and even the ugly when it comes to business clients.
Our plan is to put out some topics that we hope will have interest to the Slashdot community and provide insight into technology elements and business processes that drive decisions. All three of us are based in the United States and will be posting and responding as frequently as we can. Once the week ends we'll be passing the torch to some of our coworkers who will drive discussion on next week's topic, mobility and wireless.
We plan on covering relevant issues around business clients with topics ranging from purchasing considerations, refresh, feature selection all the way through manageability, security, virtualization and everything in between. We'll talk about the good, the bad and even the ugly when it comes to business clients.
Our plan is to put out some topics that we hope will have interest to the Slashdot community and provide insight into technology elements and business processes that drive decisions. All three of us are based in the United States and will be posting and responding as frequently as we can. Once the week ends we'll be passing the torch to some of our coworkers who will drive discussion on next week's topic, mobility and wireless.
