Hi, William, and ALL..Article...Intel soupes up SERVERS!
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Intel soups up servers
By Jim Davis
February 3, 1997, 5:30 p.m. PT
Intel (INTC) is shipping samples of an updated processor that could double server performance.
The i960RD chip handles input-ouput, or I/O, basically all the processing necessary to put information into the computer, like typing, or to give out information to the user, like displaying text on the screen. The chip can be integretated onto the server motherboard, the main circuit board in a computer. By taking over I/O tasks, the chip frees the main processor such as a Pentium Pro to handle the operations that it is more suited to like recalculating a spreadsheet, thereby speeding up overall server performance.
The new chip replaces an older I/O chip from Intel and the company claims it doubles the performance of its predecessor. With the extra processing power, server operating systems can take on online backup, security, system management, and lossless compression.
Intel has already recruited some server vendors to use the chip.
Micronics says it will be the first to incorporate the processor. It is using the i960RD in a new motherboard design that supports dual Pentium Pro processors. Micronics expects to ship products with the new chip in the second quarter of 1997.
Hewlett-Packard is also on the list of supporters for the new chip.
"The i960RD processor is a key element we will use to [improve] I/O and overall system performance," said Duncan Campbell, worldwide marketing manager for the HP Network Server Division in a statement.
HP also is planning to use the new chip because it supports the I20 specification, a new technology for increasing the performance of servers.
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