Chinese PC maker Lenovo might qualify for a frequent buyer’s discount with IBM. In 2005 Lenovo acquired IBM’s personal computer business along with the ThinkPad brand. Now Lenovo has announced plans to acquire IBM’s x86 server division for $2.3 billion. IBM isn’t giving up its entire server division in the deal. The company is holding […]
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Intel introduces 6W Atom processor for servers
A handful of companies have been offering low power servers based on Intel Atom chips for a few years. But now Intel is embracing the idea of using low-power processors in servers with the introduction of its first Atom chip designed specifically for servers. The Intel Centerton platform is a system-on-a-chip based around Atom architecture. […]
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HP pushes low power, ARM-based servers
HP has been in the headlines a lot over the last few months while the company tried to decide if it wanted to be in the consumer PC business. It does. But one thing that’s never been in doubt is that HP wants to ramp up its enterprise software and hardware offerings — and today […]
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SeaMicro’s Atom-based servers updated to Intel Atom N570
Last year a company called SeaMicro began offering servers based on 512 Intel Atom processors. But that was before dual core Atom processors were available. Now the company is selling the SM10000 server packed with 256 Intel Atom N570 dual core 1.66 GHz chips. The company says the system uses about 75 percent less power […]
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480-core ARM-based servers on the way
Think that new quad-core ARM chip NVIDIA is showing off is hot stuff? How about an ARM-based chip with 480 cores. While Calxeda’s new chip design may not feature the 3D graphics chops that NVIDIA’s Project Kal-El has, the company has unveiled a design for a ARM-based server that would bundle 120 ARM-based processors, each […]
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Intel Atom powered servers: Low power isn’t just for netbooks
Low power Intel Atom chips have changed the way we think about battery life and “good enough” performance in low-cost laptops. But it turns out that these chips which were designed for low power laptops are also useful in other areas typically dominated by expensive, power-hungry chips. A company called SeaMicro is building servers that […]