Intel had introduced its Xeon based on the Nehalem microarchitecture in March. We see now landed a new reference, W3565 Xeon clocked at 3.20 GHz. It has four cores, eight threads, and 8 MB of cache. It fits into a socket LGA 1366 and displays a TDP of 130 watts.

Its characteristics are strictly identical to those of W3570, a point near the QPI link that goes from 6.4 GT / s to 4.8 GT / s. A minor change after that, but has quite a impact on prices, since the W3565 is selling $ 562 (per thousand units, excluding taxes) against $ 999 for the W3570!

This new processor makes W3550 Xeon (3.06 GHz) and W3540 (2.93 GHz) without much interest as they are placed at the same rate. Ultimately, this is a W3565 Xeon Core i7-960 renamed, the same price. Always on the Bloomfield aware that currently Intel France has no information regarding a possible Core i7-930 (2.88 GHz), announced by some of our colleagues as a replacement for the Core i7-920 (2.66 GHz).