ARM Intel server can not respond

ARM, which is not satisfied with the mobile industry, is aggressively marching into the traditional x86 desktop and even server markets, and has announced 64-bit architecture and server products. The most unpleasant nature of this is Intel: I haven't gotten into your market. I would like to grab my site.

It is understood that Intel is preparing a new Atom that adopts the SoC system-on-chip design and development codenamed "Centerton". The goal is to fully optimize the server and take advantage of the unique advantages of the x86 architecture to resist the impact of ARM.

Centerton's platform also has a codename "Bordenville", but although it is called a platform, it is actually such a processor chip, there is no additional auxiliary chipset, which is also in line with Intel's development philosophy of a full turn to SoC.

Centerton Atom will integrate two Saltwell computing cores, clocked at up to 1.6GHz, and support key technologies such as Hyper-Threading, 64-bit computing, and VT-x virtualization that ARM lacks. Each core has 32KB level instruction cache, 24KB level 1 data cache, 512KB level 2 cache, a total of 112KB level 1 cache, 1MB level 2 cache, and an internal input/output bandwidth of 8.5GB/s.

The integrated memory Controller supports 1.5V standard voltage, 1.35V low voltage DDR3-1333/1066, and supports ECC error checking and memory RAS functions required for server applications, but only for single channels, with a maximum capacity of 8GB.

The processor also incorporates PCI-E 2.0 controllers, SMBus 2.0 controllers, high-speed UART bus controllers, and legacy IO controllers (LPC/GPIO), among which the PCI-E controller provides eight PCI-E 2.0 channels Can be divided into a x8, two x4, an x4 plus two x2, four x2, four x1 and other different configurations, external SATA controller, Intel Powerville GbE Gigabit Ethernet controller, USB controller and so on.

The manufacturing process will use 32nm, complete configuration thermal design power consumption of 5.7W or 8.1W, already very good, if you can quickly turn to 22nm will certainly be lower, or stronger specifications.

Centerton Atom is expected to be released in 2012, and the 64-bit or server version of the ARM processor will have to wait until 2013.