NextComputing Uses Intel’s Low-Wattage Quad Core Processors

By DE Editors

NextComputing (Nashua, NH) announces the incorporation of Intel L5420 Xeon 45nm Quad Core processors (called Harpertown) into its line of NextDimension flextop computers, a personal supercomputer offering an open standards, modular architecture in a package the size of a small briefcase.

NextComputing will offer up to two Harpertown Quad Core processors into its computer models including the NextDimension Pro and Pro HD, the NextDimension Evo and Evo HD, and the Vigor Pro SD.

The new low-wattage version of the processor provides an increased clock speed of 2.5GHz and 12MB cache, which is said to enhance performance by caching bits of data and code in the chip while performing other tasks simultaneously at a speedy rate.

NextComputing’s users will benefit from Intel’s 45nm 820 million transistors packed into the Intel Xeon processor 5400 series, an increase over the previous generation Intel Xeon processor 5300 series (582 million transistors).

The NextDimension Evo HD features enterprise-class performance in a portable system package with advanced graphics, throughput and data streaming; enhanced I/O functionality; hot-swappable “quick-time” hard drives; and a small form-factor processing architecture.

For more information, go to NextComputing.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.