2006-02-07 Intel shows off multi-threaded Xeon chip

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2004-06-28 Intel E7520 / E7320 Xeon chipset supporting the 800 MHz front side bus made to support Nocona. Supports PCI Express, Serial ATA and DDR-II. The E7520 was previously known as E7710 and Lindenhurst while the slightly cheaper E7320 has been known as E7510 and Lindenhurst-VS.

2005-03-29 Intel Truland Server platform including the E8500 chipset, supporting MP (4-chip) processors. To be used with Potomac and Cranford.

2005-10-10 Intel Paxville Dual core server processor. Paxville is the server version of Smithfield. Uses the Twin Castle / Enabled chipsets. Will be known as the Xeon 7000 series MP.

2006-03-14 Intel Sossaman Intel dual core low power server processor based on Yonah. TDP 31W LV 15W. Uses the E7520 chipset.
Named "Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor LV 2.0 GHz".

2006-06-19 Intel Woodcrest DP server version of Conroe. Will have FBD (Fully Buffered DIMM) which is said to allow for "stupidly large amounts of RAM". Said to be planned for future Macs. Will be named 5160, 5150, 5140, 5130, 5120 and 5110.

2006-Q2 Intel Dempsey Dual core server processor to succeed Irwindale. An MV Dempsey with a power demand of less than 105 W will also be out. Part of the Bensley platform. Some samples will be out this year. Uses the Greencreek and Blackford chipsets

2006-07-18 Intel Montecito Dual core IA-64 processor with Switch on Event MultiThreading (SoEMT), (like Niagara) built on a 90 nm process. Expected to improve on Madison 9M's performance by 2.5 times. To include 2 * 1MB of L2 cache, 2 * 12MB of L3 cache and around 1.7 billion transistors.
Consumes "only" 100W. (Foxton was to clock it up to 2.0 GHz when it was running cool enough, but was canceled.)
The 2.0 GHz / 24 MB versions are delayed until Q2 2006.
Will be named 9000 (9015, 9020, 9030, 9040 and 9050). The 9010 is a single core version.

2006-Q3 Intel Tulsa Dual-core IA-32 server chip in the Xeon class, succeeding Potomac to launch in 2006. Based on two Netburst cores with Hyperthreading.

2006-H2 Intel Montvale Itanium processor, succeeding Montecito and preceeding Tukwila. Earlier said to be a 65 nm major upgrade, but now rumoured to be a 90 nm chip with just some extra cache.

2007 Intel Tigerton New server processor in the Caneland platform. Possibly merged with Dunnington as it is sometimes referred to as Tigerton Dunnington.

2008 Intel Dunnington Eight-core server processor for IA32. Succeeds Whitefield. Possibly merged with Tigerton as it is sometimes referred to as Tigerton Dunnington.

2008 Intel Tanglewood / Tukwila IA-64 processor originally said to have eight (plus one spare) cores per die and 16-32MB of cache to follow after Montecito. Appears to use parts from a follow-on project to the now canceled Alpha EV8. Said to arrive in 2006 or 2007 and offer "at least seven times the processing" power of Madison. Other rumours claim that HP wants their advanced math libraries on the die in silicon and that it might include a vector engine.
The 8+1 core version (designed in Hudson) is now said to be replaced by a 2-core version designed in Fort Collins.
Recently said to be renamed from Tanglewood to Tukwila due to copyright reasons.
Should use the new CSI bus and socket like Whitefield). Latest info indicates it will include 4 cores with 6x4 MB of L2 cache and an on-bord FB-DIMM memory controller..

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