Intel will present "mikroservery" based on a series of Atom processor

Intel has announced that it intends to expand its line of processors with lower power consumption, which will include models designed specifically for certain "mikroserverov. As expected the company, this market segment will grow and get more development in the form of solutions, based on more efficient chipsets, rather than having a smaller number of more efficient processors. The main benefit will be to radically reduce energy consumption - from 45 watts to the modern versions of up to 10 watts or less in long-term solutions.

Now in production are models of servers, processors, built on a series of Xeon, which, depending on modifications have power 45 or 20 Watt. Upgrading processor architecture Sandy Bridge will bring to the market model with power 15 watts, but they will go on sale some time later. After that, Intel will continue to increase effectively, will be released chipsets to power less than 10 watts, which will be constructed on the basis of series of processors Intel Atom. All processors will have the standard features of server solutions, including a 64-bit compatibility, imaging and ECM code.

Solutions based on Sandy Bridge processors hit the market in the second half of the year and model on the basis of a series Intel Atom - not before early 2012.