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[Petz]

Here's the latest we have on Lindenhurst (E7520) and Tumwater (E7525) chipsets from the Inq:

06 June 2004, 11:19
WHILE IWILL was busy showing off its Opteron servers last week - and the little twin boxes attracted a lot of attention - we were at pains to ask main man Mason about the future Nocona platform.

Iwill certainly sells server and workstation boards that use both Intel and AMD chips. It had one Nocona workstation board on show, and there will be plenty more en route in the future, Mason explained.

The item pictured below, for example, is a DN800 dual Intel Xeon workstation. Alan already mentioned that these appear to be regular Xeon sockets

This one uses the Intel Tumwater and Hance Rapids combo, has a front side bus of 800MHz, supports PCI Express 16, and DDR 400. It also supports dual GbE, PCI-X and S-ATA with RAID. We were also shown a Lindenhurst solution that's on its way, Iwill said.

One thing, though. We didn't see much activity in the way of Intel server boards using up and coming (word missing) at Computex. We suspect that the product plans forced some changes on the mobo vendors. µ http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16387

11-May: Intel's Lindenhurst E7520 and its Tumwater E7525 are still on the cards. The Nocona-Lindenhurst platform is slated for Q3, while the Tumwater workstation is now scheduled for Q2 of 2005, as far as we can make out. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15841

On 5-April the Inq said, Like its little Prescott companions, LGA 775 SKUs of the 64-bit iAMD Nocona will arrive in Q3 of this year. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15177 At that time E7525 was still scheduled for Q3.

I assume E7525 is the MP (4-way & up) version.

But its clear now why HP and others are saying "sometime in Q3" for their EM64T Xeon products -- Iwill's mockup motherboard notwithstanding, the E7520 is not scheduled to be ready until Q3, and no one wants to design products using an old chipset designed for the 32-bit market, if in fact that is even possible.

Petz