Intel confirms early shipment of quad-core Xeon server platform

By Colleen Taylor, Contributing Editor -- Electronic News, 7/25/2007

Intel Corp. confirmed Tuesday that its quad-core Xeon server platform codenamed "Caneland" has been shipping to OEM customers since June, and will launch on a larger scale during the current quarter.

In a corporate blog post published yesterday, Kirk Skaugen, the VP and general manager of Intel's server products group, said that the ahead-of-schedule start of Caneland's volume shipments "represents the best execution [Intel has] ever had from design to production of a multiprocessor architecture." Caneland was first publicly demonstrated in October 2006; in April, Intel said it expected to ship Caneland in Q3.

Caneland is a "multi-processor" (MP) platform, which refers to servers that can support four or more processors. As the first quad-core offering of Intel's MP family, Caneland is composed of the Tigerton quad-core microprocessor and the Clarksboro chipset.

With a total of 16 cores, Intel claims that the Caneland platform doubles the performance of its previous-generation Tulsa Xeon MP, which debuted in August 2006. Intel said that the Tigerton processor will top out at a frequency of 2.93GHz and will be available in 80 watt and 50 watt versions.