If AMD will begin the deliveries Of shanghai multiprocessor systems already in the fourth quarter this year, then Intel in this period will supply nehalem processors only for the desktop sector and for the two-processor servers ( initial level ).
Intel briefly described on IDF fall 200 its plans with respect to the release of nehalem server processors . First , to public INTEL demonstrated a silicic plates with the 8 core nehalem version , which will be used precisely in the server segment. INTEL representatives openly stated that the server processors nehalem-EX for systems with more than four sockets will be presented in the second-half of 2009.
It should be noted that even desktop systems on base Of bloomfield with six slots DIMM can support the imposing storage capacity due to the use of special DDR-3 modules class MetaRAM with volume 8-16 Gb each. In servers motherboard the capacity of supported memory can be increased up to 144 Gb.