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On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:51:15PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote |
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> It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but |
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> I very much like ARM's low power consumption. |
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An update to my earlier response. A slasdot article at |
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http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/intel-launches-centerton-to-take-on-arm/ |
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> As expected, Intel launched its Atom S1200 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Dec. |
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> 11. Intel hopes that the 6-watt architecture-developed under the |
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> codename "Centerton"-will allow it to push back against the emerging |
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> ARM microserver market. |
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> The Atom S1200 is a dual-core 64-bit chip. It's been optimized |
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> for servers and the data center, with features including ECC, |
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> virtualization, and hyperthreading (the lattermost is capable of |
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> delivering four threads per chip). The eight lanes of PCI Express |
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> 2.0, along with a memory controller supporting up to 8 GBytes of |
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> DDR3 memory, help make the S1200 a true System-on-a-Chip. |
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And the usual discussions/flamewrs are at... |
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1712200/intel-announces-atom-s1200-soc-for-high-density-servers |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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