Intel anticipates that when Dempsey is released in the first quarter of the next year, the Xeon will have a front side bus of 1066 MHz and start life at 3.80 GHz, with other flavours clocking at 3.60 GHz, 3.40 GHz and 3.20 GHz.

Dempsey, a dual core 65 nm Xeon, will have two times 2 MByte of cache, but Intel will also create an MV Dempsey with TBD less than 105 watts, according to the most recent roadmaps the firm has shown its partners.

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