Microservers are shaping up to be become a new battlefield between ARM and Intel.Intel just announced that it will launch "Centerton" in the second half of this year to complement its Xeon x86server processor lineup on the lower end.Centerton will be a dual-core Atom 64-bit SoC with support for Intel's virtualization technology and ECC memory. According to the company, Centerton will carry a 6 watt TDP, less than one-third the power design of its lowest-power Xeon CPU (20 watt). Intel did not provide any further details, but Germany's Computerbase reported that the SoC will run at 1.6 GHz, support up to 8 GB DDR3-1333 memory and integrate eight PCIe 2.0 interfaces.A reference design currently demonstrated, called "Dual Cove," shows Centerton in a dual-socket setup with four processing cores and 16 GB DDR3 memory.Intel's pitch against ARM is the x86 design of Centerton, which offers application compatibility in existing environments and can be modeled into existing economy-of-scale scenarios.
i dont think the "how fast are these chips" would apply to those, but rather "how slow are these chips" would make a fitting question.so... how slow are these chips?
tho if they could keep or improve their performance/watt then it wouldn't bother most of the buyers.
