Intel Pentium Chip Consolidates Servers

INTEL to give new life to the Pentium processor servers, and has begun shipping a new processor Pentium 350 chip low-end servers.

The operation of the dual-core processor with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz and 3 MB of cache. Like many server chips, Pentium 350 missing graphics features that are included on most laptops and Intel desktop processors.

Iconic Pentium processor line has been around for over a decade, but now is largely aimed at the budget laptops and desktop computers. Intel Pentium PC was the flagship of the line processor, Core mantle now held by the chips. The company, once offered a Pentium III and Pentium II Xeon processors for servers.

A spokesman for Intel said the chip is designed for micro-servers that are energy efficient, compact servers for Web services and content delivery services. Intel Xeon chips already offers E3 and will soon launch new chips based on Atom micro-servers.

The new processor is a recognition of the Pentium brand to stay, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research. Furthermore micro-servers Pentium 350 could also be used in cheap, task-specific documents for storage servers, printing or sharing, according to McCarron.

“What we see is a part shifted,” said McCarron. The Pentium 350 is a cheaper alternative to Intel PC chips, which could also be used in servers, but are more expensive with additional features such as integrated graphics.

The new processor is based 15 watts of power and there is a remote possibility that it could be used in the leaves, McCarron said. The processor, however, is not a substitute for existing low-power Intel Atom processor. These are usually for netbooks and tablets, but also used in high-density server and SeaMicro SM10000-64HD to process transactions in the cloud.

Targeting the new Pentium chip on servers could also be a tacit acknowledgment that Intel wants to replace Pentium Celeron brand, which is the lowest step on Intel. Celeron processors used in desktop computers and cheap laptops, and in some cases, low-end servers.

Intel declined to provide prices of Pentium 350.