Next revision of xserve (2008?) ?

rpinard said:

I'm trying to decide on the timing of a purchase of an xserve. Does anyone have a clue about when we might expect a new revision of the xserve? I know the last one was early 2008, and they don't tend to come out very often. But I also don't know whether there have been significant changes in the Intel chip sets that might warrant a revision.

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• 1.1x~1.25x the single-threaded performance of Penryn,
• 1.2x~2x the multi-threaded performance of Penryn
• …or the same performance as Penryn, but 30% less power. Given that the Xserve tops out at 80 W, this would be a big help.
• An integrated memory controller with 3 channels (up from 2 channels) - Delivers increased memory bandwidth.
• QuickPath interconnect - Eliminates the front side bus bottleneck so delivers greater performance.
• Hyper-threading - Each core has 2 threads, which means 4 cores will look like 8 logical cores to the OS and apps, delivering greater multi-threaded performance.
• Clock speeds are similar to those of the latest Harpertowns, which means you won't lose anything in that area.