Intel's Cloud Chip

Forbes.com (Dec 7 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. After decades of pushing decentralization in the data center, the pendulum is decidedly swinging the other way. IBM ( IBM - news - people ) is making money with mainframes again, and Intel ( INTC - news - people ) is preparing to do battle against Big Blue in the next several years with a "single-chip cloud computer." That's another way of saying centralized processing. Instead of virtualizing applications across a data center and running those applications in a cloud comprised of multiple machines, Intel now is pushing to run them on a single chip with literally dozens of cores on the same machine. (Read Full Article)

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