Intel ships new Atom processors small biz, home storage appliances

16.08.2010
an update to its Atom processor-based platform for home and small business storage appliances.

The updated chip offers a performance boost and supports a new memory technology, Intel said.

The new 1.8GHz D425 (single core) and D525 (dual core) processors are paired with the Intel's 82801 IR I/O controller that delivers the connectivity. Both new processor platforms support Microsoft Windows Home Server and open source Linux operating systems.

The processors include higher CPU frequencies for faster storage processing and will support next-generation memory technology DDR3 SODIMM. The DDR3 SODIMM dual in-line memory modules offer double the I/O data rates of today's SDRAM.

In March, a new Atom processor platform that was optimized for use in network attached storage (NAS) devices for home and small businesses.

The 1.66GHz Atom D410 single core and D510 dual core processors were bundled with the company's 82801IR controller to create a hardware platform optimized for processing higher-intensity I/O workloads through hyper-threading, or parallelization of computations, and optimized data handling firmware.