Intel Corporation has revealed its new Intel Atom S1200 low power, 64-bit server-class System-on-Chip (SoC) on 11 December, 2012. The SoC is suitable for high-density microservers and new energy-efficient networking and storage systems. This industrial-strengthen microprocessor supports capabilities fro achieving manageability, server-class reliability and cost-effectiveness.
The Vice president & General Manager, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, Intel, Diane Bryant said that the company recognised the need for a new class of energy-efficient and high-density servers and other equipments, several years ago. Now, the company is delivering the industry's only 6-watt SoC which covers all these datacenter features.
The need of high density servers with low-processors has increased with continuous and growing usage of the cloud. Thus, Intel's SoC will provide users with desired performance while reducing the energy consumption, which is one of the biggest cost drivers in data centers.
The first low-power SoC, Intel Atom processor S1200 product family, includes two physical cores along with four threads, which are enabled with Intel's hyper-Threading Technology. It also packages a 64-bit memory support, Intel Virtualization Technologies, a memory controller with 8GB of DDR3 memory support, Error-Correcting Code, eight lanes of PCI Express 2.0 and other I/O interfaces combined from Intel chipsets.
The Intel Atom S1200 product family will also work in harmony with the x86 which is commonly used software in data centers today. This provides easy integration of the new low-powered equipment while avoiding additional investments in porting and maintaining new software stacks.
The Vice president & General Manager, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, Intel, Diane Bryant said that the company recognised the need for a new class of energy-efficient and high-density servers and other equipments, several years ago. Now, the company is delivering the industry's only 6-watt SoC which covers all these datacenter features.
The need of high density servers with low-processors has increased with continuous and growing usage of the cloud. Thus, Intel's SoC will provide users with desired performance while reducing the energy consumption, which is one of the biggest cost drivers in data centers.
The first low-power SoC, Intel Atom processor S1200 product family, includes two physical cores along with four threads, which are enabled with Intel's hyper-Threading Technology. It also packages a 64-bit memory support, Intel Virtualization Technologies, a memory controller with 8GB of DDR3 memory support, Error-Correcting Code, eight lanes of PCI Express 2.0 and other I/O interfaces combined from Intel chipsets.
The Intel Atom S1200 product family will also work in harmony with the x86 which is commonly used software in data centers today. This provides easy integration of the new low-powered equipment while avoiding additional investments in porting and maintaining new software stacks.
