Intel Breathes New Life Into Pentium

angry tapir writes "Intel is giving new life to its Pentium processor for servers, and has started shipping the new Pentium 350 chip for low-end servers. The dual-core processor operates at a clock speed of 1.2GHz and has 3MB of cache. Like many server chips, the Pentium 350 lacks features such as integrated graphics, which are on most of Intel's laptop and desktop processors."

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So, exept from the name....

[Ch_Omega]

... What exactly does this have to do with the older pentium architechtures?

Re:It's only a matter of time.

[Tastecicles]

Their whole Pentium M, Centrino and Core brands are based on the Pentium III "Tualatin".

Pentium never died, although P4 came close. That was a dead end.

Re:Still selling the same chip?

[Mr Z]

Hmmm... processors do do more work per clock nowadays as compared to 12 years ago. And, they do it at waaaaaaaay less power and cost. Think about your huge many-fanned nearly 1kW rig from the turn of the millennium vs. the cramped space of a 1U slot pulling maybe 100W. This ain't your father's Pentium.

Re:It's only a matter of time.

[unitron]

"You don't buy Pentium or Core, you buy Intel."

The more technically aware perhaps, but people like the dudes who got Dells (i.e., the ones who had no idea that there were any OS'es besides Windows) knew they wanted a Pentium even if they didn't know if it was made by Intel or Mat-tel.

Re:GOOD GOD MAN !!

[hairyfeet]

Actually I'm shocked nobody has tried cooking up a low cost low power server based on brazos. With OpenCL you could harness the built in Radeon GPU and at 18w for a dual core 1.6GHz part its a power sipper. You could slap 4 of them into a blade and only be using 72 watts for an 8 core with 4 Radeon GPUs you could run GP/GPU code on. Now that even Nvidia is supporting OpenCL it seems like that would be a better deal over the Pentium in TFA.