Intel Supercharges Atom Chips With 16 Cores and Pro Level Features (pcworld.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:00AM from the stepping-up-the-game dept.

Agam Shah, writing for PCWorld: Intel's Atom was mostly known as a low-end chip for mobile devices that underperformed. That may not be the case anymore. The latest Atom C3000 chips announced on Tuesday have up to 16 cores and are more sophisticated than ever. The chips are made for storage arrays, networking equipment, and internet of things devices. The new chips have features found mostly in server chips, including networking, virtualization, and error correction features. [...] A surprising feature in C3000 is RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability) capabilities, which is mostly found on high-end Xeon chips. The feature corrects data errors on the fly and prevents networking and storage equipment from crashing.

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Re:Too many cores. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-02-21 08:17 · Score: 3, Informative

These chips are designed for very parallelizable applications like file serving, managing multiple simultaneous VPN clients, etc. You want one core per NIC for these to make the best use of AESNI plus one or two more for management tasks.