"Comparing to the IBM Power environment, it is almost humorous."

I wonder if that comment will be as a red rag to a bull and spur IBM into doing something .... Novel and SunNI with RobotIQs for IT does appear to be a Clashing of Titanic Servers and there can only be One Leader even should it be Resolved as a Joint/Multicored Derivative Futures Adventure of CoInterIndependent Goliaths selling their Dream Virtual Machinery to their Dependent Markets/Client Base.

* QuITe who Wwwe would be, of course, is Proprietary SMP Information and Privileged IntelAIgents Freely Available to be Known and Easily Accessed via the Exercise of Advanced Binary Beta Algorithms.

And all of this wonderfully weird and wacky Next Step Change Innovation, does make Microsoft Windows look very Pedestrian/Neanderthal?

Thanks but why can't Intel make a four socket box with Nehalem?

They are very slow followers....

memory controller on chip....everyone else has already done

direct chip to chip vs. FSB....been there done that

multi-threading....been there.

never believe benchmarks

lies, damn lies and benchmarks!!!!

Now there's a blast from the past. Presumably, all new servers will be beige and have an extra button on the front.

Mine's the one with Tron in the pocket. On Betamax.

AMD was responsible for the x86 platform going from 10% to 50% in the last decade because their 64-bit implementation got traction for being affordable, sensible, and backwards compatible.

Everything in Nehalem is an incremental upgrade, or a gimmick on an incremental upgrade, except the MMU virtualization. (This piece finally obsolesces the fancy software technology in VMware, and makes VMware just another front-end on the hardware.)

If Intel had their way, then Sparc would still be leading because the alternative would be Itanic.

When will these be available in a MAC ?

reaching for my iPhone there

I think you mean "Price when bought in batches of 1000."

If not, i'll take 4000 of the top-line chip right now! eBay, here I come...

i have had the new CPU's for the last 4 months, (and yeah, there VERY quick) 2008 hyper-v works fine on them. :)

As I've mentioned before, never trust a vendor's comparitive benchmark, I'm sure the Xeon comparison to T2 and Power were done with an application that was chosen to highlight Nehalem's capabilities compared to Power. Always compare with the application your business needs to perform well, in your environment, with your data. /rant off

It's very interesting, though, that Gelsinger made the most noise about "beating" Power. Looks like Intel have decided who their biggest opponent is, and the surprise is it's not AMD's Opteron. I was expecting more on how Nehalem would be the best option for all those customers fleeing the sinking SPARC/Slowaris ship, seeing as that looks like a key target area for the coming few years for all the CPU vendors. All that old SPARC base is potential market growth, new customers to add to the churn of the old installed Xeon base. But then again, he might be trying to highlight Nehalem's advantages versus Power as a way of stopping all those ex-Sun customers porting to Power if IBM does swallow Sun.

Interesting times ahead!

> And compared to a Power6-based Power 570 server from IBM, a Nehalem EP machine

> was one-tenth the cost and delivered 2.45 times the oomph.

Really?

2-year old IBM Power6 with 8 cores: TPC-C: 800k

Fastest Nehalem with 8-cores: TPC-C: 630k.

http://www.tpc.org

Still, it's so much better than previous Intel chips.

So under "certain workloads" (I'm guessing that we are talking single threaded ones here), the new processors are much faster than massively multi core processors from the competition?

Who'd have thought it? What's next, fire is hot?

Sorry, but when I read "Turbo Boost" I just heard The Hoff shouting "...KITT!!!" after it. So does it mean these new boxes can jump canyons and artics with only a slight buckling of the chassis (mysteriously gone by the next shot)?! :-D

"When will these be available in a MAC ?"

As soon as they do them in translucent hues... since when do Apple customers care about anything boring like performance, over and above how goddamn stylish they all are?!

When will these be available on a Mac? Since early March:

http://www.apple.com/macpro/

Apple had early access to the processor, as they have on some previous occasions too, so were able to ship products before the official release of the CPUs used therein.

What an arse you are!

Your didn't include the Shipping cost.

Abdo

At this point in time, Itanic is only marginally more relevant than Motorola's 68K series. Actually, scrub that, I bet there are more of the latter still doing useful work out there.