Intel Ships 1 Million E7000 Chipsets For Servers and Workstations

by Anton Shilov
06/17/2003 | 06:02 PM

Intel Corporation said today has shipped 1 million chipsets for enterprise computing since introducing its new generation of chipsets for servers and workstations in early 2002. This chipset family chiefly targets the Intel Xeon processor, and began with the Intel E7500 chipset for 2-way server systems. By now, there are many different core-logic products for workstations and servers from Intel Corporation.

In addition to the original E7500, in late 2002, Intel extended its enterprise chipset offerings with new workstation chipsets: the Intel E7205 chipset (for entry-level Intel Pentium 4-based workstations) and the Intel E7505 (for Intel Xeon-based workstations). At that time, the Intel E7501 chipset was also introduced for Intel Xeon processor-based servers with a 533MHz Quad Pumped Bus.

This Fall Intel will introduce a new enterprise chipset, code-named “Canterwood-ES”, for 1-way Intel Pentium 4-based server systems. Canterwood-ES, which will include PCI-X I/O expansion capability, shares many of the features and benefits of the i875P (Canterwood) chipset, which was introduced in April.

In 2004, Intel will introduce new chipsets for Intel Xeon processor MP-based servers (code-named “Twin Castle”) as well as 2-way Intel Xeon processor-based servers (code-named “Lindenhurst”). These are expected to be the industry’s first chipsets to incorporate PCI Express and DDR-II SDRAM memory technology.