Intel plans to launch Atom processor at less than 10 watts in 2012

Intel executives said on Tuesday, and a sub-15-watt Xeon with the "Sandy Bridge" architecture later this year.

Later this year Intel will also present a software evaluation lab where customers can test the code you live in, he said.

Intel executives made ​​the revelations during a "micro server" briefing in San Francisco. The chip giant also asked to support Facebook, a natural proponent of cloud computing, its strategy, a business man has done.

Intel has already begun on the E3-1260L, a 45-watt version of the Xeon, and E3-1220L, a 20-watt Xeon server market displayed a new class of small but dense knots with a single low-power processor and to achieve a common housing, fan and change, a greater density. The so-called "wimpy" nodes can be much less than most multi-CPU servers fixed, but they are cheaper and potentially easier to implement and can be more effective, too.

In a few weeks, Intel will launch its Xeon "Sandy Bridge" server platforms, such as E3xxx series known. In 2011, Intel Xeon-segment address of 95 watts to 20 watts. "Some customers want the power consumption, lower nodes to reduce costs, and that Bazilli of them, " said Boyd Davis, general manager of Intel Server Marketing. "Others want the most powerful and everything else."

Atom version does not dominate the category, "said Davis." Our expectation is that more than MicroServer grow, grow faster and the first Xeon, "he said.

Category MicroServer an outlet that does not dominate the market, either, Boyd said it was important to note that "97 percent" of the volume delivered to customers bi-socket server tag.

"We are very pleased with the content category, " said Davis. "It will not take over the world ... but we are excited about many things, we will win, and we have the best technology to meet the costs."

Intel's processor fastest Running at 4.4GHz

In the middle of last year, when Intel makes parts for the pre-production for the next update to the Xeon 5600. Xeon has also done some very interesting specimens. The most striking feature of these chips is very high clock frequency. Even the slowest of this group at 4 GHz Xeon microprocessor was recorded, and posted the fastest 4.66 GHz One such example is in production and began shipping this year.

The processor was released as a Xeon X5698 4.4 GHz and that production is the fastest Intel processor.

Intel Xeon X5698 is based on Westemere based microarchitecture, and a few important differences, share many characteristics with other Xeon chips 5600th One difference, the core frequency is very high, already mentioned above. This model has only two active processor cores, and we believe that the other four cores on the die. The processor comes with 12 MB ​​L3 cache, HyperThreading, and works on motherboards Socket 1366th X5698 Intel OEM part number and number AT80614007314AA SLC32 S-spec. We suspect that this code will take stock of OEM systems only sent.