I'm sure you've already seen press on the new 7400 series of processes. It is a really exciting time to see 6 core procs coming out. Being an engineer that supports enterprise applications and technologies this should provide a lot of extra power to apps that were CPU bound to 4 procs. One such technology is virtualization and Microsoft's Hyper-V. Previously the limit of Hyper-V was 128 physical procs and 16 logical procs. Microsoft just released an update that will increase those previous limits to support up to 192 physical procs and 24 logical procs! WOW, I can't wait to see that in action. This should definitely help organizations that need to limit their physical footprint of servers with their consolidation efforts.
This is a great example of two companies combining their technology in ways that really benefit the customer. Very exciting times...I can't wait for even more cores!!!
