platforms targeted at servers and workstations," says Jerry Braun, Intel's product line manager for Xeon volume processors.
The important surrounding technologies, he says, are the next-generation PCI Express point-to-point I/O channel and Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) memory.
Moving forward, reports are bubbling up from the field that Intel may answer back at AMD by adding its own on-board memory controller into a 64-bit-capable Xeon. Intel's Braun declined to comment about that. Such a move would enable Intel to effectively claim on-chip feature parity with Opteron--something it claims it doesn't want to do.
"We'll continue to innovate at the platform level," Braun emphasizes.
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