Intel Marks Energy-Efficient Milestone with 50-Watt, High-Performing Quad-Core Server Processors.Processors Represent Nearly Ten-Fold Power Consumption Improvement in Less Than 2 Years SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Further expanding its quad-core processor family line-up, Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking today announced two energy-efficient 50-watt server processors that represent a 35- to nearly 60-percent decrease in power from Intel's existing 80- and 120-watt quad-core server products. As companies increasingly focus on reducing electricity bills and cooling costs associated with their computing needs, these new processors, requiring just 12.5 watts of power for each of the four cores or processing engines, deliver similar performance yet set a new standard in energy efficiency. Intel has introduced 11 server, workstation and desktop PC quad-core processors since November. Servers based on the new low-power, quad-core processors are designed for dense Internet datacenters, blade servers and industries such as financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. where the scale and density of servers are highly sensitive Adj. 1. highly sensitive - readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated" to power, real estate and cooling costs. The potential for cost savings by replacing aging infrastructure with Quad-Core Intel[R] Xeon[R] processors and deploying virtualization technology See VT. See also virtualization. can be as much as $6,000 per year over the lifetime of each server based on Intel's own evaluations.1 In addition, these new processors represent a nearly ten-fold improvement in power consumption per core in just 1 u years.2 The company attributes this collective success to the merits of its breakthrough Intel[R] Core[TM] microarchitecture and aggressive design execution. "Intel has really responded to the industry's call to deliver unprecedented breakthroughs for data center energy efficiency," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group and general manager of the Server Platform Group. "IT managers can get outstanding quad-core Intel Xeon server performance today and at no premium to dual-core products. We are thrilled to drive further records in lower power consumption and we won't stop here. Our engineers and architects are passionate about delivering even more power-saving innovations down the road." Intel is introducing two low-voltage processors: the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor L5320 and L5310. The new 50-watt quad-core processors operate at 1.86 GHz and 1.60 GHz, respectively, feature a unique 8 megabytes (MB) of on die cache for faster memory data communication and run on dedicated 1066 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. front side buses. In 1,000 unit quantities the L5320 is priced at $519 and the L5310 at $455. These processors can be coupled with Intel's existing "Bensley" server platform and have been designed to be "drop-in" compatible with the existing Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor families. Servers based on these new processors are expected to be available worldwide over the next few months from Acer, Dell, Digital Henge henge Noun a circular monument, often containing a circle of stones, dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages [from Stonehenge] , Fujitsu Siemens, HP, HCL HCl hydrochloric acid. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Rackable Systems, Samsung, Verari, Wipro and other companies. Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. Intel, Intel Xeon, Intel Core, and the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. -- Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 1 Study: IT@Intel, Dec 2006. Can be found at www.intel.com/it/pdf/consolidate-using-quadcore.pdf 2 Compared to 64bit Intel[R] Xeon[R] Processors at 110W TDP TDP (thymidine diphosphate): see thymine. (110W per core) |
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