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After Monday's roll-out of Intel's long-awaited Xeon 5500 family, The Reg sat down with a pair of Intel honchos at the company's Santa Clara, California, headquarters and asked, "What took you so long?" After all, Intel's Core i7 high-end desktop processors, based on the same new Nehalem microarchitecture, went on sale over …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    3500s and Turbo Boost

    The article infers that the Turbo Boost feature is exclusive to the 5500s, but this isn't the case.

  2. Paul
    Paris Hilton

    will be interesting to compare with latest AMD Shanghai 2384

    we've got an eval box with twin Shanghai 2384HE processors, and are hoping to get a dual L5520 to compare.

    I feel very sorry for AMD right now.

    Paris, because she knows what it's like to have the whole world see what's inside.

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