Intel Ships Core Duo-based Xeon

diegocgteleline.es writes "According to The Register, Intel has begun shipping a power-efficient dual-core "Xeon LV" and claims that it consumes no more than 31 W running at 2 Ghz, with a 667 Mhz frontside bus and sharing 2 MB of L2 between the two cores. The new chip has "four times the performance-per-Watt of its existing 2.8GHz LV Xeon CPU", not surprising given how slow and power inefficient those CPUs were. While this looks like a move to make AMD shares continue yesterday's tendency, it looks like Intel is starting to catching up?"

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Re:A start, but no 64-bit? 667 Mhz front-side bus?

[Burning1]

"Intel's going to have to do a lot more than this to catch up to AMD in the server space."

Back in 2001 when I was just an AMD fanboy I would have made a mess in my pants upon hearing that.

I don't mean to ponfificate, but

[xactuary]

Didn't Pope Zeon LV kiss the tarmac at Starfleet Academy?