SeaMicro Drops Another Atom Bomb on the Server Market (New York Times) February 28, 2011 at 1:03 AM
Back in June, server startup SeaMicro dropped its Atom bomb on the server
market, launching an extremely energy-efficient server using Intel’s Atom
microprocessors. That enabled SeaMicro to get customers who delivered web
pages to tens of millions of internet users across four continents. Now
SeaMicro is dropping another Atom bomb.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is announcing a second generation of
servers today that use a new 64-bit Atom microprocessor from Intel, improving
the amount of computing power that SeaMicro’s servers can use per watt of
power consumed.
“The response has been extraordinary,” said Andrew Feldman (pictured at top),
chief executive of SeaMicro. “The sucking sound in the market is unbelievable.
Everybody wants low-power computing.”
As we wrote last year, SeaMicro found a way to turn the server industry on its
head. Computer makers were once obsessed with building servers that had as
many cores, or brains, as possible. But those microprocessors used a lot of
electricity, throwing off a lot of heat in a confined space and consuming so
much power that the electricity bill became bigger than the cost of the
equipment.
So SeaMicro created the SM10000, with a tiny server board that was two inches
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