The performance gains Intel is claiming are bold-- very bold. But something tells me they're really not exaggerating, even with statements like this:

"Its performance increase will be dramatic, posting the highest-ever jump from a previous generation processor."

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The pairing of this processing power in the new Cisco UCS Blade servers with VMware's vSphere 4 will provide an incredibly compact data center footprint with outrageous performance capacity. Gotta love it!

"Nehalem-EX will provide tremendous scalability, from large-memory two-socket systems through eight-socket systems capable of processing 128 threads simultaneously without the need for third-party chips to “glue” the platform together. Additional scalability options including greater sockets counts will be possible with third-party solutions."

Intel's entire statement can be found <a href="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20090526comp.htm?iid=pr1_releasepri_20090526m">here</a> .