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• Woodcrest outperforms Opteron in speed and power consumption - analyst
  Saturday 24 June 2006 – 03:47
  An analyst from Thomas Weisel Partners today issued a research brief that included a first evaluation of Intel's claim to achieve market leadership in terms of power consumption and application performance with its upcoming Xeon 5100 (Woodcrest core) processor.
• Intel releases Woodcrest benchmark results, claims series of records
  Tuesday 23 May 2006 – 05:52
  Intel today released official server benchmark results, providing a first glimpse of the real-world capability of the company's Core architecture. According to Intel, the server derivate "Woodcrest" is 125% faster than the current Xeon processor generation - and outpaces AMD's Opteron by about 60%.
• Intel to ship Woodcrest processor in June
  Wednesday 1 March 2006 – 08:51
  Sources told TG Daily that Intel will begin shipments of its Woodcrest server and workstation processor at the end of June of this year.
• Woodcrest launches Intel into a new era
  Monday 26 June 2006 – 05:00
  Intel today introduced the first processor based on its "Core" architecture: The Xeon 5100 rings in the beginning of the end of the Netburst architecture - a power hungry technology that was introduced more than five years ago and brought the company down to its knees. Core's mission is to restore Intel's competitiveness and lay the foundation for the firm's future.
• Intel Woodcrest server leads AMD Opteron 64 server in performance test
  Tuesday 7 March 2006 – 10:21
  In the first head-to-head match-up for performance supremacy between AMD and Intel processors, staged by Intel , in quite some time, an AMD Opteron 64-based Sun Fire X4200 server running at 2.4 GHz, was placed against an example of a future HP ProLiant server running Intel's Woodcrest platform.

• Xeon Woodcrest Preys On Opteron*
  Monday 26 June 2006 – 02:46
  Intel must have craved this day: The Xeon 5100 at 3.0 GHz and 4 MB L2 cache launches today to decapitate the AMD Opteron. Our look under the hood explains what the Core 2 microarchitecture is capable of.
• Intel Woodcrest and AMD Opteron Battle Head to Head*
  Thursday 26 October 2006 – 07:46
  Intel and AMD battle it out in the server market. Is Intel's new Woodcrest able to dethrone the mighty AMD Opteron? We compare two servers and get the facts for you.