On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:51:15PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote > It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but > I very much like ARM's low power consumption.
An update to my earlier response. A slasdot article at http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/intel-launches-centerton-to-take-on-arm/ > As expected, Intel launched its Atom S1200 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Dec. > 11. Intel hopes that the 6-watt architecture-developed under the > codename "Centerton"-will allow it to push back against the emerging > ARM microserver market. > > The Atom S1200 is a dual-core 64-bit chip. It's been optimized > for servers and the data center, with features including ECC, > virtualization, and hyperthreading (the lattermost is capable of > delivering four threads per chip). The eight lanes of PCI Express > 2.0, along with a memory controller supporting up to 8 GBytes of > DDR3 memory, help make the S1200 a true System-on-a-Chip. And the usual discussions/flamewrs are at... http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1712200/intel-announces-atom-s1200-soc-for-high-density-servers -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
