Intel will shortly launch its Core i3, i5 and i7 lines of desktop and mobile processors. For this the 32 nanometer ‘Arrandale’ laptop and the ‘Clarkdale’ desktop processors have just been launched at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show that was held in Las Vegas.
However, a lot of server and PC manufacturers cannot seem to keep themselves from talking about their wares until after the chip was launched. IBM is one of those who had to blabber about its products as it is more than excited to enter the System x x64 server industry. For this, the technology manufacturer has announced that it will come out with two servers that come with the Core i3 chips.
System x3200 M3 tower server will be designed to support Pentium, Celeron and Core i3 processors. It will come with the DDR3 main memory with error connection. IBM currently supports dual-core Core i3-530 which will run at 2.93 GHz with 4MB of L3 cache on chip and the i3-540 on 3.06 GHz with the same 4 MB cache.
The dual core Pentium G6950 chips will run at 2.8 GHz on a 3 MB cache while Celeron G1101 chips will spin at 2.26 GHz. Clarkdale core i3’s could come with an integrated video card in the package but Celeron and Pentium chips wouldn’t.
For its new servers, IBM will provide support for both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003. It will also support Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 and Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux Server 4 and 5. Which is good news for all managed hosting providers.