New
Computer Networking Chips
Technology
titans IBM and Intel have
rolled out powerful new
computer chips designed
for businesses continually
demanding more from networks
and data centers.
Intel introduced
an Itanium processor 9300
series developed under the
code name “Tukwila”
that it touts as delivering
twice the performance of
prior generation chips.
The 9300 series
features two billion transistors
per chip and four “cores,”
mini-brains that process
data.
“With
the Gartner Group predicting
a 650 percent growth in
IT data over the next five
years, businesses need increasingly
powerful and scalable enterprise
servers,” Intel said
in a release.
Intel also
said the chips are built
to improve the ability of
computer systems to recover
from otherwise fatal errors.
IBM launched
new Power7 servers built
to manage intensely demanding
computing environments such
as smart electrical grids
or real-time financial markets
analysis.
Power 7 chips
at the heart of the systems
perform four times as fast
as the previous generation
Power 6 microprocessors,
tending to 32 tasks simultaneously,
according to IBM.
Power 7 systems
incorporate technology tailored
for services that rely on
“processing an enormous
number of concurrent transactions
and data while analyzing
that information in real
time,” IBM said.
In addition,
the new systems enable clients
to manage current applications
and services at less cost
with technology breakthroughs
in virtualization, energy
savings, and more cost-efficient
use of memory,” according
to IBM.
The announcements
by Intel and IBM come as
Oracle weighs into the market
by acquiring Sun Microsystems
in a deal valued at 7.4
billion dollars.
Oracle has
vowed to put its resources
behind improving and marketing
Sun Solaris server systems
built on SPARC microprocessor
technology.
