Dell announces Itanium server pricing, Xeon servers

Dell revealed the pricing for its PowerEdge 3250 server, based on Intel's new Itanium 2 processor, and also will make Intel's new Xeon chips available on four-way PowerEdge servers, the company said Monday.

The Round Rock, Texas, company will charge $6,000 for an immediately available base configuration of its PowerEdge 3250, with a 1.3-GHz Itanium 2 processor with 3M bytes of cache, it said. The two-way server is also available in a cluster of eight nodes for $88,600.

Intel launched the new Itanium processors on Monday along with new Xeon MP processors.

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Dell revealed the pricing for its PowerEdge 3250 server, based on Intel's new Itanium 2 processor, and also will make Intel's new Xeon chips available on four-way PowerEdge servers, the company said Monday.

The Round Rock, Texas, company will charge $6,000 for an immediately available base configuration of its PowerEdge 3250, with a 1.3-GHz Itanium 2 processor with 3M bytes of cache, it said. The two-way server is also available in a cluster of eight nodes for $88,600.

Intel launched the new Itanium processors on Monday along with new Xeon MP processors.

Dell will incorporate Intel's newest Xeon MP processors into its PowerEdge 6650 and 6600 four-way servers, it said. The new Xeon MP chips have clock speeds of 2.8 GHz, 2.5 GHz, and 2.0 GHz.

HP's ProLiant line of servers will be available with the new Intel Xeon MP chips in mid-July, it said Monday. IBM had previously announced it would release new servers with the new Intel Xeon MP processors.

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