Fujitsu Limited recently announced the release of the two-way, rack-mount PRIMERGY RX300 S5 and RX200 S5 servers in Japan, both using the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series.

The servers incorporate enhanced power-switching and cooling technology to improve energy efficiency and help customers reduce their environmental footprint.

Apple today announced an updated Xserve® that delivers up to twice the performance of the previous system.* Using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and a next generation system architecture, the 1U rack-optimized Xserve delivers up to an 89 percent improvement in performance per watt.** Xserve is available with up to two 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon processors and industry-leading storage options that include a low-power solid state drive (SSD) and up to 3TB of internal storage. Starting at $2,999, Xserve includes an unlimited client license for Mac OS® X Server version 10.5 Leopard®.

Silicon Graphics, a one-time star of the High Performance Computing (HPC) world will be bought by Rackable Systems.

Rackable sees synergy in products offered by both companies
and feels SGI customers can leverage Rackable's energy efficient HPC products. Both Rackable and SGI executives seem pretty excited about the deal.

IBM today unveiled a new generation of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based System x(TM) servers and software that enable customers to more easily roll out virtualized computing and significantly reduce growing operating costs with higher performance, simplified management and increased utilization.

RadiSys® Corporation today announced the release of its Promentum® ATCA-4500, a new AdvancedTCA (ATCA) single board computer (SBC) utilizing the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. The ATCA-4500 combines high performance with large memory capacity and expansion flexibility to address advanced control, gateway and telecom server functions for a broad set of 4G applications including LTE (Long-Term Evolution), WiMAX, NMS (Network Management Systems), and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem).