Intel will officially announce this event at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) taking place next week. The products being launched this time are dual-core Xeon chips for server machines, codenamed Dempsey and Woodcrest, aimed at replacing the existing Paxville chip line on the market.
Intel spokesperson Scott McLaughlin stated, “At this year’s IDF forum, we will officially announce that Intel will provide Dempsey chips in Q1 and Woodcrest chips in the second half of this year.”
According to developers, the new chip varieties will enable computer manufacturers to deliver smaller and cooler systems to the market.
Additionally, the new processor types may enhance system speed as they allow users to run applications in parallel, rather than having applications wait in line for their turn as before, said Paul Miller, Vice President of Marketing for HP’s Standard Industrial Server and BladeSystem products.
“The speed of processors will no longer be measured in megahertz but in the number of integrated cores they have. Most applications today are multi-threaded to fully utilize this capability,” Miller affirmed.
One of the reasons the market is eagerly awaiting Intel’s new chip generation is that the Paxville chip technology disappointed users. According to analyst Gordon Haff, Intel quickly designed this chip line solely to compete with rival AMD.
“In other words, without AMD, the Paxville DP chip line would not have been released. The new Dempsey and Woodcrest chips were carefully designed by Intel and are true dual-core chips,” Gordon stated.
