Atom Makes Its Way Into SuperMicro Low-Power Servers

on 05/04/2009, filed in Home > Computers

SuperMicro is building Atom-based server to make an energy efficient class of servers. Obviously this might not be suitable for a computing cloud datacenter, but it might work just perfectly for some form of data storage server, which does manage a file system rather than compute more complex requests. an Atom CPU consumes between 4W and 8W while their desktop counterparts can consume anywhere between 40 and 130W. [Press release]

CPU: stands for Central Processing Unit. In a computer, there is at least one CPU, which many have one more more processing Cores, which can often be considered to be CPUs themselves. The modern concept of CPU is usually a silicon chip that performs two basic tasks: its control unit fetches instructions from memory and executes them and the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) computes basic math and logic operations. The CPU is a critical component in a computer.

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