[LINK] HP servers, 91 kilowatts to 9 kilowatts

Martin Barry marty at supine.com
Fri Nov 4 00:33:26 AEDT 2011


$quoted_author = "stephen at melbpc.org.au" ;
> 
> While a transition to these chips in servers has been predicted by makers 
> of the mobile chips, H.P. is the first major computer company to offer a 
> commercial product. In addition to incorporating the mobile chips, 
> building the computers required innovations in software, data storage, 
> and networking.

Note the qualifier "major".

 
> Mobile chips have another distinctive feature: Most are not made by 
> Intel,  the dominant supplier of traditional personal computers and 
> servers. Intel, however, has a line of low-power chips, called Atom, and 
> though these are not now used in Moonshot, H.P. went out of its way to 
> say that Atom would be used in future versions.

Like they already have been for some time by Seamicro
http://www.seamicro.com/


cheers
Marty



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