Intel announced new server chips on April 9 2013, including the latest Xeon E3, which is the first server processor based on the company’s latest Haswell microarchitecture.
Intel’s Xeon E3 chips are targeted at low-end servers and microservers, which are an emerging category of dense servers largely aimed at Web hosting and cloud implementations. [Detail]
Intel announced a new Atom processor aimed at embedded devices and in-car infotainment platforms. The “Tunnel Creek” CPU offers an onboard graphics controller, memory controller, and audio, linking to a separate I/O controller via a standard PCI Express interface, according to the company.
Intel showed off systems running an experimental 48-core processor Wednesday. Here’s a look a the chip and the systems.
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Two years ago, Robert Love, a senior software engineer at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), unveiled a new open source project called Open-FCoE to the Linux community. In April, Open-FCoE moved a step closer to its goal when its FCoE initiator, along with the data center bridging (DCB) drivers, which provide the quality of service that organizations need to be able to run Fibre Channel over Ethernet on a unified wire (along with other traffic types), were included in the 2.6.29 Linux kernel.
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Japanese electronics companies are designing a chip that will compete with Intel, while a China-based manufacturer says it’s working on devices using an alternative chip design, according to reports.
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A letter from The Securities and Exchange Commission to Intel will not form the basis of a future episode of “24.”
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At SIGGRAPH, Intel made available version 2.2 of Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), the most widely used high level programming method for parallelism. Intel TBB 2.2 maintains the functionality and platform support of previous versions and adds numerous feature and performance improvements, including full support for the lambda capabilities of the new C++ draft standard (C++0x) and more flexibility for ISVs to redistribute with applications using Intel TBB. Autodesk Maya* and Epic Games Unreal Engine* are among the applications that will be reshipping some or all of Intel TBB 2.2 to support ecosystem developers. More>>>