Intel expected to fiddle with server lines in 2008

CHIP FIRM, Intel intends to rejig its server offerings next year, according to reports.

Digitimes says platforms using the Itanic 2 are for the chop, as its new Boxboro comes into being.

Current high-end 1- and 2-way server platforms, Bensley and Garlow, will be superceded by by the Tylersburg EP platform, Taiwanese sources have disclosed to Digitimes. Bensley-VS, Cranberry Lake and the new Tylersburg EN platforms will appear in the mid-range and entry-level 2-way server market the paper says.

With the changes comes some new nomenclature, it seems. Boxboro comes with am MC epithet, meaning "mission critical", apparently, while EX stands for Expandable, EP indicates Efficient Performance and EN indicates Entry (level).

Obviously, you don't want to run a mission critical app on a EN server. It might fall over. You'll run something like the payroll on that. If its MC, it may not be EP, but that's ok, because if it's MC you'll want it to keep running and damn the environmental cost.

But if your server is MC you might also want it to be EX. We dunno if this is possible. Especially if you want it to be EP as well.

Try going for a MCEXEP. And to keep the cost down pitch for EN as well. That should get your Intel representative in a tizz.

Tylersburg, a 1- and 2-way workstation chip comes in all four different flavours, but it is unclear if you can all four flavours in one offering. We doubt it somehow.

Digitimes, says here that Intel wouldn't confrim or deny any of this. µ