Speaking yesterday at Intel’s most important server launch ever, vice president Pat Gelsinger said that the latest Xeon 5500 becomes a cash machine for IT after only 8 months of use.
“It’s printing money that allows IT to go focus on innovation and business value [...] The value proposition is so high that even Intel IT is very interested,” added Gelsinger.
However, this “value proposition” becomes reality only if enterprises “refresh” single or dual-core servers with the new quad-core Xeon 5500.
Which is why Gelsinger conveniently pointed to an IDC study revealing that 80% of the world’s 30 millions X86 servers are single or dual-core servers.
Is Nehalem, Intel’s secret bailout plan for shrinking IT budgets? Let’s start printing some money then 
