The Nehalem-based xeons are a landmark release, with exceptional performance married to great power.

The days of unreliable seven-day forecasts may be a thing of the past, thanks to the Bureau of Meteorology's investment in a new Sun Microsystems supercomputer that uses Intel's new Xeon 5500 chip.

Intel has officially launched its first Nehalem-based Xeon chips for servers and workstations, bringing increased performance and greater power efficiency in the biggest overhaul of the Xeon platform for years.

Looking to build your dream machine? We explore the latest components on the market, and give you advice on which ones to hunt down, along with the general price you can expect to pay for each major component.

We've put AMD and Intel’s new processors to the test, and there's one clear winner.

Sun flip-flops back to Intel Xeon servers.

Impressive technology, but increasing cores doesn’t necessarily increase performance.

A versatile single-socket rack server with a wide range of processor choices, plus a good warranty for the price.

Two-way and four-way servers celebrate new Sun and Intel love-in.

A versatile single-socket rack server with a wide range of processor choices, plus a good warranty for the price.

Chip giant unveils new processors as Dell and HP launch quad-core PCs andservers.

A solid, general-purpose pedestal server with good storage and a classy management act – plus it’s quiet as a mouse

Comparatively pricey, but IBM delivers a quality rack-server package.

Mesh architecture allows for massively scalable multi-core chips.

Widens customer choice, says analyst firm.

There’s so much to like about this package that it might just be worth switching operating systems to get hold of it.

Quad-core technology for the masses.

Intel’s announcement that it would finally release its own 64-bit extension to developers next US fiscal quarter has raised eyebrows at rival chip-maker AMD.