Intel Corporation introduced the Intel® Atom™ processor S1200 product
family today, delivering the world’s first low-power, 64-bit
server-class system-on-chip (SoC) for high-density microservers,
as well as a new class of energy-efficient storage and networking
systems. The energy-sipping, industrial-strength microprocessor features
essential capabilities to achieve server-class reliability,
manageability and cost effectiveness.
“The data center continues to evolve into unique segments and Intel
continues to be a leader in these transitions,” said Diane Bryant, vice
president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems
Group at Intel. “We recognized several years ago the need for a new
breed of high-density, energy-efficient servers and other datacenter
equipment. Today, we are delivering the industry’s only 6-watt1
SoC that has key datacenter features, continuing our commitment to help
lead these segments.”
Intel’s Next Generation of Microservers: The Real Thing
As public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform
companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web
servers are also growing. High density servers based on low-power
processors are able to deliver the desired performance while at the same
time significantly reduce the energy consumption – one of the biggest
cost drivers in the data center. However, before deploying new equipment
in data centers, companies look for several critical features.
The Intel Atom processor S1200 product family is the first low-power SoC
delivering required data center features that ensure server-class levels
of reliability and manageability while also enabling significant savings
in overall costs. The SoC includes two physical cores and a total of
four threads enabled with Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology2
(Intel® HT). The SoC also includes 64-bit support, a memory
controller supporting up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, Intel® Virtualization
Technologies (Intel® VT), eight lanes of PCI Express 2.0,
Error-Correcting Code (ECC) support for higher reliability, and other
I/O interfaces integrated from Intel chipsets. The new product family
will consist of three processors with frequency ranging from 1.6GHz to
2.0GHz.
The Intel Atom S1200 product family is also compatible with the x86
software that is commonly used in data centers today. This enables easy
integration of the new low-powered equipment and avoids additional
investments in porting and maintaining new software stacks.
New Milestones in Power Efficiency
Intel continues to drive power consumption down in its products,
enabling systems to be as energy efficient as possible. Each year since
the 2006 introduction of low-power Intel® Xeon® processors, Intel has
delivered a new generation of low-power processors that have decreased
the thermal design power (TDP) from 40 watts in 2006 to 17 watts this
year due to Intel’s advanced 22-nanometer (nm) process technology. The
Intel Atom processor S1200 product family is the first low-power SoC
with server-class features offering as low as 6 watts1 of TDP.
Broad Industry Support
Today, more than 20 low-power designs including microservers, storage
and networking systems use the Intel Atom processor S1200 processor
family from companies including Accusys*, CETC*, Dell*, HP*, Huawei*,
Inspur*, Microsan*, Qsan*, Quanta*, Supermicro* and Wiwynn*.
“Organizations supporting hyperscale workloads need powerful servers to
maximize efficiency and realize radical space, cost and energy savings,”
said Paul Santeler, vice president and general manager, Hyperscale
Business Unit, Industry-standard Servers and Software at HP. “HP servers
power many of those organizations, and the Intel Atom processor S1200
will be instrumental as we develop the next wave of application-defined
computing to dramatically reduce cost and energy use for our customers.”
An Even Brighter Future
Intel is working on the next generation of Intel Atom processors for
extreme energy efficiency codenamed “Avoton.” Available in 2013, Avoton
will further extend Intel’s SoC capabilities and use the company’s
leading 3-D Tri-gate 22 nm transistors, delivering world-class power
consumption and performance levels.
For customers interested in low-voltage Intel® Xeon® processor models
for low-power servers, storage and networking, Intel will introduce the
new Intel Xeon processor E3 v3 product family based on the “Haswell”
microarchitecture next year. These new processors will take advantage of
new energy-saving features in Haswell and provide balanced
performance-per-watt, giving customers even more options.
Pricing and Availability
The Intel Atom processor S1200 is shipping today to customers with
recommended customer price starting at $54 in quantities of 1,000 units.
More information on the announcement including Diane Bryant’s
presentation, additional documents and pictures are available at http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-3172.
About Intel
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company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the
foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information
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Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized
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components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of
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combined with other products.
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numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across
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1Intel introduces three processors within new Intel Atom
S1200 product family with actual TDP as follows: Intel Atom S1260
(8.5Watts), Intel Atom S1240 (6.1Watts) and Intel Atom S1220 (8.1 Watts)
2Available on select Intel® processors. Requires an Intel® HT
Technology-enabled system. Consult your system manufacturer. Performance
will vary depending on the specific hardware and software used. For more
information including details on which processors support HT Technology,
visit http://www.intel.com/info/hyperthreading.
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