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Intel reveals new top-of-the-range Xeon 7500 
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Intel has formally launched its new series of top-end workstation and server CPUs, the Xeon 7500 range.

Based on the Nehalem EX architecture (codenamed Beckton), the range brings clock speeds up to 2.66GHz, parts with eight physical cores, Hyper-Threading and a massive 24MB of L3 cache.


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So, new Mac Pro's soon then...


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Not using the Xeon 7500 series.
The prices are even more scary that the Xeon 5500 series.
New Mac Pros will most likely be using whatever the Xeon equivalent of the Core i7 980X (Xeon 5600 series perhaps)

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Strange that they're sticking to 45nm when they have that many cores on a single CPU. Probably so that can milk even more out of businesses at a later date.

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