Thursday, November 24th 2011
New Intel Pentium Chip Headed for Low Cost Servers
Intel started shipping the new Pentium 350, a model designed specifically for low-cost servers, micro-servers, and home servers; a segment Intel originally planned to address with some of its Atom dual-core chips. The Pentium 350 is an offshoot from entry-level desktop and notebook platforms the Pentium brand is currently in charge of, it is designed with durability and energy-efficiency required by servers in mind.
Available in the LGA1155 package, Pentium 350 is a dual-core processor based on the 32 nm Sandy Bridge dual-core silicon. It is clocked at 1.20 GHz, and features 3 MB of shared L3 cache apart from 256 KB L2 cache per core. Thanks to its low clock speed, the chip's TDP is rated at just 15W, making it ideal for home and small business servers. It will naturally benefit from the high IPC of Sandy Bridge architecture. The chip features Intel64 instruction set, its integrated memory controller supports up to 32 GB of dual-channel DDR3-1066/DDR3-1333 MHz memory.
Its on-chip graphics controller is disabled (so it relies on the one server boards come with, or any discrete graphics card). Moving on to its feature-set, HyperThreading Technology is available, enabling 4 logical CPUs for the operating system to deal with. The latest AVX instruction set is lacking, though SSE instruction sets up to SSE4.2 are available. VT-x finds room. Fast memory access, flex memory access, and NX-bit wrap it up. There is no word on the retail pricing.
Available in the LGA1155 package, Pentium 350 is a dual-core processor based on the 32 nm Sandy Bridge dual-core silicon. It is clocked at 1.20 GHz, and features 3 MB of shared L3 cache apart from 256 KB L2 cache per core. Thanks to its low clock speed, the chip's TDP is rated at just 15W, making it ideal for home and small business servers. It will naturally benefit from the high IPC of Sandy Bridge architecture. The chip features Intel64 instruction set, its integrated memory controller supports up to 32 GB of dual-channel DDR3-1066/DDR3-1333 MHz memory.
Its on-chip graphics controller is disabled (so it relies on the one server boards come with, or any discrete graphics card). Moving on to its feature-set, HyperThreading Technology is available, enabling 4 logical CPUs for the operating system to deal with. The latest AVX instruction set is lacking, though SSE instruction sets up to SSE4.2 are available. VT-x finds room. Fast memory access, flex memory access, and NX-bit wrap it up. There is no word on the retail pricing.
23 Comments on New Intel Pentium Chip Headed for Low Cost Servers
oh well, if it had an unlocked multi... completely forgot about that. bu i bet it would hit a 200% overclock easily.
that's why pentium brand may or may not stay.
What I worry the most is the vision brand, because it didn't change since it was released, and now you can't notice old laptops featuring a 3200IGP from newer 4250 IGP laptops, as example. Even some AMD C-50 laptops(14" and 15") have the red sticker and people associated the vision brand with "performance in games or multimedia", while we all know C-50 is pretty weak... Vision should at least change to "Vision 2" or change the color or something.
Intel doesn't base their marketing on the <1% of the world who are computer savvy;. They focus on the other 99%.
The 99% don't know and don't care if the Pentium 4 underperformed.
Too bad its lacking a GPU.
But, 3 months later... that expensive AMD K6-III without thermal management burnt itself out.
Never bought AMD again.
Amazing how experiences, both good or bad, affect someone's purchase behaviour FOR YEARS.
www.cpu-world.com/news_2011/2011112002_Intel_Pentium_350_CPU_is_available.html