[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“On November 2, 2006 the embargo for Intel’s Core 2 Extreme Quad
QX6700 was lifted which resulted in a slurry of reviews covering
this flagship desktop processor. However, this morning happens to
be an important date for Supercomputing 2006 and it serves as yet
another milestone for Intel Corporation. This morning Intel will be
introducing the Xeon 5300 series, or perhaps better known by its
codename of Clovertown. At Phoronix we have had these processors
in-house for over a week now and today are able to share our
thoughts on these quad-core server/workstation processors as we
test them under GNU/Linux.“The introduction of Clovertown is coming quickly after the
successful launch of the Xeon 5100 series (Woodcrest), which had
only happened back on June 26 of this year…”