Intel thinks 10 per cent of servers will run Atom chips by 2015
Dylan Larson, director of the Xeon platform at Intel told journalists that the days of designing chips with higher frequencies and greater numbers of cores might be coming to an end, with Intel's customers looking at 'extreme density'. Larson said that by 2015 he expects that single socket 'microservers' will make up 10 per cent of the server market.
Larson said, "The market is moving beyond two and four socket and into extreme density with 'microservers' that use power efficient processors." As for what chips will end up in those servers, it could be Atom, but Larson said it won't be an Atom in its current form, saying that it will need to have features such as ECC memory support.
Whether Intel slaps a Xeon label on its Atom processor or not, the server chip market seems to be following the consumer chip trend of shying away from large monolithic chips.
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