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The arrival of the speedy Intel Pentium Pro server chip in 1995 set the stage for the explosion in Internet usage. Intel said Monday that its new Xeon 5500 server chip will help build data centers ready for the next generation of the Internet.

Intel’s Patrick Gelsinger described the Xeon 5500 as “the greatest leap in performance in the history of data processing.”

Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s digital enterprise group, said the Xeon 5500 is faster, more energy efficient and more flexible than its predecessor. He predicted it will propel advances in cloud computing and virtualization that will be the key to data-center growth and efficiency.

Gelsinger described the new chips as “an engineering marvel,” comparing them to an aircraft that’s as fast as an F-16 with the cargo capacity of a jumbo jet and the fuel efficiency of a glider. The new chips are about twice as fast as the previous Xeon 5400 chips.

I’ve been doing some research on the new Intel Xeon processors, looking at the new servers that have been released on these processors from Dell/HP/IBM etc and found this article, it discusses the processor, do check it out.

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