The company’s latest coup is hiring Sailesh Kottapalli, a former chief architect for Xeon processors and a ... is Kottapalli’s expertise in x86 architecture. His leadership could help bridge ...

As a result, Xeon is no longer positioned strictly as an entry-level product, but will instead alternate in terms of both availability and performance with Intel’s Itanium architecture.

rely on the same x86 instruction set architecture and support the same operating systems and hypervisors as well as the wide range of applications and libraries traditionally backed by Xeon CPUs.