"They [WDG] were running on Opteron which was a better product for them 18 months ago," Hannath said. "With Woodcrest they can now do their modelling a lot more quickly and can sell off their high-performance computing environment to third parties because they are not consuming that time to run their own modelling."

Hannath said software development for the new processors will also be easier because Intel now has a common microarchitecture for mainstream servers, desktops, and notebooks.