Intel launches Xeon E5-2600 series for enterprise segment

Intel have just announced their brand new E5-2600 series of Xeon processors for the enterprise segment. The new series finally brings some Sandy Bridge sophistication to workstations and companies, like Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, IBM, Oracle Corp and Cisco Systems Inc are already jumping onboard. The new chips will be available for single, dual and quad-socket configurations. The new chips are based on the same Sandy Bridge-E silicon, which is capable of supporting up to 8-cores. The desktop version of these chips top out at 6-cores, but for the server segment, Intel need not hold back here and they can unleash the true power of the Sandy Bridge-E core.

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