Announced Wednesday, the single-socket workstation chips consist of the power-hungry Xeon W-3400 series for expert workstations and the less-demanding Xeon W-2400 series for mainstream workstations.

Intel's one-socket S3420 series of ATX-style boards can accept Xeon 3400 series processors as well as the Core i3 or Pentium G6950. It provides two memory channels to six slots (except the GPV ...