The level of interest around the new Xeon 5500 from Intel is huge among the servers selling companies such as Cisco, IBM, Dell and others. 

 

The capabilities of the Xeon 5500, formally known as Nehalem, are said to be revolutionary. Its power efficiency is great and its speedy access to information stored in memory even greater. The new chip from Intel boasts triple the memory bandwidth of previous chips and also has the capability to adjust its clock speed to account for multiple workloads.

 

The latest big player in the server market that announced its interest in the new chips from Intel is Cisco Systems, a company who recently launched Unified Computing System, a new server strategy. As well as IBM and Dell, it will try to use the new technology in order to boost its share in the corporate datacenter market. 

 

The Nehalem EP processor family includes 17 new Xeon chips that are already available in systems such as workstations and servers. The new technology considered by many industry observers revolutionary, will most likely spur demand in the IT sector, market analysts said. 

 

According to Intel, its new family of chips can offer the double amount of computing performance compared to the processors available now on the market. The first ten versions of processors from the Nehalem family will range from dual-cores to quad-cores, from 2 GHz to 3.2 GHz in clock speed and from $188 to $1600 in tray prices. Intel said the chip will be boosted to an 8-core Nehalem-EX version later this year.