Intel’s Nehalem chips would be offered by Lenovo for workstations
Lenovo on Tuesday became the second major PC maker to announce workstations based on Intel’s upcoming quad-core Nehalem chips, which are due for release next week.
The high-end ThinkStation D20 and low-end ThinkStation S20 workstations will run on Intel’s upcoming Xeon 3500 and 5500 series dual-core and quad-core chips, the company said. The processors belong to the Nehalem-EP line of server and workstation processors that Intel plans to officially launch next week.
The announcement comes a few weeks after Apple became the first major PC vendor to announce Xeon-based workstations. Apple earlier this month started taking orders for new Mac Pro workstations also powered by Xeon 3500 and 5500 quad-core chips. The Mac Pro workstations will run Apple’s Mac OS X operating system.
The PCs are targeted at users who need powerful systems to render high-end graphics, like digital content creators, game developers and engineers, said Kristy Fair, a Lenovo spokeswoman.
The D20 workstation is a dual-socket system, which allows up to two processors to work together, and it supports 96GB of memory. The S20 has a single-processor slot and supports up to 12GB of memory. The systems offer hard drive storage of up to 1TB.
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