Just like in the mobile and desktop space, Intel's savior in this highly contested and prestigious workstation/server segment was none other than the Core microarchitecture which as we've explained in our IDF articles, are tuned differently to be deployed in all three sectors. Launched in June this year (ahead of the Core 2 series for the desktop), the Xeon 5100 series returned with a vengeance and almost immediately rivaled and even surpassed AMD at times as far as dual-processor configurations (2-way SMP) are concerned in performance, power consumption, thermal output and even price.



Link: HardwareZone