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I am completely baffled that Intel did not do this. I guess they figured ATOM is just a crappy little side-project processor, not one of the big boys.
by GrandMasterBirt 16y ago
I am completely baffled that Intel did not do this. I guess they figured ATOM is just a crappy little side-project processor, not one of the big boys.
- megaman821 16y agoThey basically did it's called Larrabee and it is now being transformed into a server product.
- pjscott 16y agoIt looks to me like Larrabee's successor is is going after the high-performance computing market, not the server market. Why else would they devote so much die area to having loads of wide floating-point SIMD units?
- ippisl 16y agoSome see the move to many-core ATOM servers , as a move to put financial pressure on intel(since ATOMs are cheap). And this move helps the future of ARM based servers , since ARM is more similar to ATOM than to XEON.
- hga 16y agoThere's going to be limits to the amount of pressure as long as Intel doesn't offer ECC for any Atom variety microarchitecture. One of the articles I read said that they thought about using an AMD chip but it wasn't going to ship soon enough. I can see them hearing from their customers (would be and actual) that they'd buy more if they offered ECC and SeaMicro offering an AMD based box in the future. I wonder how Atom specific the ASIC is....
- ippisl 16y agoi think that the chip also suits the ARM architecture without changes.