Chips: Intel Announces Fastest Pentium II Xeon Processor; Pentium II Xeon Processor at 450 MHz Designed for Dual-processor Workstations and Servers - Product Announcement

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Oct 12, 1998

Intel Corporation Tuesday announced the fastest speed version of its Pentium II Xeon processor at 450 MHz, designed for use in dual-processor (two-way) workstations and servers.

The new processor is expected to accelerate the strong early industry acceptance of Pentium II Xeon processor-based workstations and servers. Dual-processor (two-way) workstation and server customers are migrating their most mission-critical, demanding applications to systems based on the Pentium II Xeon processors.

System vendors including Compaq, Dell, Fijitsu, Gateway, HP, IBM, Intergraph, NEC, Siemens Nixdorf (SNI), TriStar and UMAX plan to ship systems based on the Pentium II Xeon processor 450 MHz later this month.

"Advances in Intel processor technology continue to drive new levels of performance, resulting in rapid expansion of the workstation and server market segments," said Anand Chandrasekher, general manager, Intel's Workstation Product Division. "Our initial Pentium II Xeon processor launch brought new customers to the Intel Architecture, and today's announcement of the Pentium II Xeon processor at 450 Mhz should accelerate that trend."

Like other members of the Pentium II Xeon processor family, the new Pentium II Xeon processor at 450 MHz delivers industry-leading performance from its larger and faster Level 2 (L2) caches, multiprocessing capabilities and 100-MHz system bus.

The combination of the pure performance of the Pentium II Xeon processor and the systems' scaleability brings exceptional levels of price performance to the two-way server and workstation market segments. The Intel 440GX AGPset for workstations and servers with one or two processors provides 2-GB memory support and fast AGP graphics.

In 1,000-unit quantities, the Pentium II Xeon processor 450 Mhz with 512 KB L2 cache costs $824. Pentium II Xeon processors running at 450 Mhz for four-way servers will be available in early 1999.

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com.

For complete benchmark information on Intel Pentium II Xeon processors, visit the Intel Web site at www.intel.com/procs/servers/Xeon/benchmarks/index.htm for server systems and www.intel.com/businesscomputing/wrkstn/mid_range/benchmark_landing.htm for workstation systems.