Posted on Thursday, November 13 2008 @ 21:37 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Sources at server makers
told DigiTimes that Intel will release Xeon 5500 (Nehalem-EP) and Xeon 3500 series (Nehalem-WS) server processors in Q1 2009:
Intel will launch ten CPUs for the Xeon 5500 series: quad-core W5580 (3.2GHz), X5570 (2.93GHz), X5560 (2.8GHz), X5550 (2.66GHz), E5540 (2.53GHz), E5530 (2.4GHz), E5520 (2.26GHz), E5506 (2.13GHz), E5504 (2GHz) and dual-core E5502 with prices at US$1,600, US$1,386, US$1,172, US$958, US$744, US$530, US$373, US$266, US$224 and US$188 in thousand-unit tray quantities.
For the Xeon 3500 series, Intel will launch three CPUs: quad-core W3570, W3540 and W3520 priced at US$999, US$562 and US$284.
Furthermore, Intel will also phase out seven notebook processors in January 2009. This includes the Core 2 Extreme X7900 and X7800, and Core 2 Duo T7800 and L7700.
