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.

The new lineup of Nehalem-class quad-core processors, code-named Lynnfield, comprises three new desktop chips -- including the first-ever Core i5 part -- and six Xeon 3400 series processors for ...