IBM next week will begin selling its first servers with quad-core processors, utilizing Intel's "Clovertown" Xeon 5300 models.

The company announced five models, each with two processor sockets, and promised a significant performance increase over those systems with the dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processors. In the case of the x3650, an integer-processing speed test yielded 64 percent better performance with the quad-core processors than with dual-core, IBM said.

IBM will begin taking orders for the quad-core systems next week, but volume shipments won't begin until December for the x3650 and a slimmer sibling, the x3550, IBM said. The other models will become generally available in January.

By: DocMemory
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