Intel has finally unveiled the details of its highly anticipated new Xeon processors, a line of 17 chips for workstations and servers that contain many advances related to power use, virtualization and speed.rnCode-named Nehalem, the Xeon 3500 and Xeon 5500 processors were announced by Intel last week, and vendors such as IBM, HP and Dell released platforms based on the chips. Intel said it shipped hundreds of thousands of chips to server makers in advance of the launch, in hopes that customers will clamor for more powerful systems despite the economic downturn. Intel calls this launch the most significant revamp of its server chip line since the 1995 release of the Pentium Pro.rn"We expect this to be one of the broadest rollouts of new technologies and a new platform, and hopefully a nice kick for the economy for people who have been waiting to buy new servers," said Shannon Poulin, Xeon platform director in Intel's Server Products Group.
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