Intel's Xeon processor family is specially designed to meet the scalability, availability and manageability needs of the high-performance workstation market segment. Intel Xeon processors for dual-processor workstations are the heart of today's most advanced workstations. This new processor is designed specifically for multi-tasking environments and provides outstanding performance for multi-threaded applications. Additionally, workstations based on the Intel Xeon processor allow designers, financial analysts, and other professionals to more quickly and effectively create designs, analyze, and visualize complex data.The Intel Xeon processor for dual-processor workstations delivers exceptional floating-point and technical compute performance for today's most demanding workstation applications. Workstations based on Intel's new Xeon processors use the Intel NetBurst microarchitecture to deliver processing power for video, audio and the latest Internet technologies and 3-D graphics.