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Friday, October 04, 2013

#CHIPS: "Supermicro MicroBlade Packs 896 Atom Cores"

Microservers will play an important part in the future of web hosting, mobile cloud services, data visualization and even in extreme scale-out environments and Intel's Atom C2000 (code-named Avoton) aims to lead the pack the way Xeon leads in the traditional server world. Case in point is SuperMicro's new Microblade which pack 896 energy efficient Atom cores into a single 6U rack: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


Supermicro's MicroBlade offers extreme-density 112 octal-core Intel Atom C2000 processors, for a total of 896 cores, in a single 6U chassis just 10-1/2 inches high.
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