New low power Xeon 5500 series chip
Intel has announced a new low voltage version of the Intel Xeon 5500 series processor.
The Intel Xeon L5530 processor is said to improve the frequency of 60W LV Xeon 5500 SKUs running at 2.40GHz, providing performance per watt improvements in blades and high density computing.
Intel also revealed a dual socket workstation chip, the Intel Xeon W5590 processor running at 3.33GHz; and two single socket workstation chips, the W3580 running at 3.33GHz and the W3550 running at 3.06GHz, all designed to improve performance in threaded and non threaded workstation environments.
