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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28, 2004 - Intel Corporation today announced availability of a new Intel? Xeon? processor-based platform and a host of new products and technologies for its Intel Xeon processor family that significantly boost performance, memory and graphics capabilities for workstation platforms. Workstations will benefit from rich set of new technologies that address the increasingly data-hungry systems and software applications that crave performance for a range of functions such as financial and scientific data modeling to digital filmmaking and design automation.

The new Intel processor-based workstation platform, which features an advanced Intel Xeon processor and a significantly more powerful chipset, boosts performance by up to 30 percent over previous generations¹. The new platforms also help reduce power consumption and total cost of ownership.

Through a stable of technologies such as DDR2 memory, PCI Express², a faster 800MHz system bus, Intel? Extended Memory 64 Technology, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep? Technology and more, new platforms based on the Intel Xeon processor family enjoy faster memory support, improved graphics performance, extended memory addressability and improved power management. At the heart of the new platform is an advanced Intel Xeon processor, built on Intel's industry-leading 90-nanometer manufacturing process, which continues to take advantage of Intel Hyper-Threading technology, and a new chipset optimized for workstation platforms.