The Intel Xeon processor is designed specifically for 4-way and above multi-processor mid-range to back-end servers. This new server processor provides industry-leading compute power and throughput for a variety of e-Business and enterprise applications, including customer relationship management, middleware, collaboration, media server, site management, mid-size database, business intelligence, and supply chain management.

Applications demanding large numbers of transactions will especially see performance boosts due to tightly integrated, innovative server technologies, including:

Hyper-Threading Technology:
This unique on-die innovation enables multithreaded applications and operating systems to execute more than one thread per processor. The result: Significantly higher transaction throughput and performance across the board.

Integrated Three-Level Cache Architecture:
Highly efficient (L1 execution) trace cache and L2 advance transfer cache are now augmented by 512KB or 1MB of integrated L3 cache. Because of reduced memory latencies this results in a high bandwidth path to memory, increasing throughput for larger workloads.

Intel NetBurst Microarchitecture:
A clock-doubled rapid execution engine and Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 technology combine to speed both common integer and demanding media-oriented operations.