Server manufacturers, meanwhile, are wasting no time partnering with Intel on the new offerings. Dell introduced two new PowerEdge models, the 6800 and 6850 -- respectively a tower and rack-based model -- that the company says will let customers choose from among to the five new Xeons to enhance clock speed, enable a larger cache or blend the two capabilities. The 6800 is priced at $3,899, while the 6850 will run $4,999.
"For the fist time, our customers can move their applications to a 4-way platform at a lower-end cost," said Paul Gottsegen, Dell's vice president of worldwide marketing for the company's enterprise product group.
Similarly, Hewlett-Packard will base two new ProLiant models on the new Xeon line -- the rack-mountable DL580 and a tower model, the ML570, priced respectively starting at $6,270 and $5,270. "The key to success in the 4-way space is providing platform capability," said Brad Anderson, HP's senior vice president for industry standard servers. "This line of processors lets us innovate quite broadly and meet customer needs that have been expressed to us."
Unisys will offer the 64-bit Xeons on its existing ES7000 midrange platform, a move that Mark Feverston, Unisys vice president of enterprise server marketing, said suited a customer base that's increasingly trending away from Unix running on RISC-based platforms.
"For CIOs, their existing RISC-based Unix platforms become a real target for replacement with this alternative," Feverston said. "The attraction to CIOs is to continue to reduce their server costs, and they'll be getting increased performance along with that."
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