Comments on: Why You Should Care About Intel's New Server Chip

By: Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:35:27 +0000

Actually the reason why one should care about Nehalem would be because of its overwhelming performance.

Intel’s Nehalem micro-architecture improves system speed by cutting bottlenecks that were a problem with Intel’s earlier chips. In some circumstances, these new Nehalem chips could double server performance while consuming less power than their predecessors, which were from the Intel Penryn family.

Though Nehalem is a new architecture, it is still built on the same 45nm process that debuted with Penryn, it provides a high performance and an excellent power usage which is 30% lesser than the former.

By: Cisco’s Unified Server Takes Memory to the Max

Cisco’s Unified Server Takes Memory to the Max — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:01:48 +0000

[...] system seem to be in line with competing products from HP and IBM built on Intel’s latest Xeon 5500 chips, but Cisco’s offerings have more than twice the memory. That’s essential, because the [...]

By: Intel Going Mobile With Moorestown, Pushing Nehalem Everywhere

Intel Going Mobile With Moorestown, Pushing Nehalem Everywhere — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:01:17 +0000

[...] keeping with Intel’s plans to put the new, super-fast Nehalem architecture in more than just PCs and servers, the company promised a laptop version called [...]

By: hoberion

hoberion — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:22:43 +0000

you forgot to mention its great for vmware (better performance and better licensing)

By: Aaron deMello

Aaron deMello — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:31:13 +0000

Agreed. ;-) LOL

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:20:58 +0000

Andy, your suspicions are correct. I should probably ban all car analogies in the future.

By: Andy Freeman

Andy Freeman — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:20:58 +0000

> Just like a Ferrari with 12 horses

I suspect that you meant “cylinders” instead of “horses”.