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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Re:Too many cores. by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  2. Re:Too many cores. by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Going from 16 to 4 would be a light version of the chip, and everyone knows that Cores Light is garbage.

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  3. UltimateTarget for Atom: Cars and Trucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They'd like a spot at the table of the massive amount of chips that will be needed in autonomous cars and other AI driven machines. Parrelization works very well in processing data from lots of sensors. I suspect this is just the beginning.

  4. Re:Netbook and this please. by ctilsie242 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would be happy with a mini rack/blade system about the size of a HP MicroServer, with the ability to add 4-8 of these CPU boards in it as blades, each board having a SSD big enough to load a Linux distro or ESXi... and one has a nice CPU farm that doesn't take much space, but can run a lot of lightweight VMs very economically.