Intel Pitches Xeon 5400 “Penryn” Chips at Low Latency Apps
Intel yesterday announced its revolutionary Xeon 5400 chip - the first based on its Penryn technology - and expects servers based on the device to deliver significant performance and power consumption benefits across a wide range of low latency financial applications, including risk analytics, market datafeed handling and transactional execution systems, according to Intel executives.
Penryn versus original Pentium
Penryn - characterised by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore as the biggest transistor advancement in 40 years - incorporates so-called Hafnium-based High-k Metal Gate transistors, and 45 nanometre transistor packaging, allowing chips to be built with nearly twice the transistor density as current models (which use 65 nanometre packaging). This equates directly to being able to deliver more compute power for the same amount of electrical power consumed.
The 5400 chip (previously known by its codename, Harpertown) also includes a 12 megabyte cache and a 1600 MHz front side bus to boost input/output bandwidth. The chips will be incorporated into Intel’s Stoakley platform, which will form the basis for commercial server products from Intel’s partners.
Intel will be making a physical product launch in New York City on Tuesday, to be followed by a financial markets-specific fasterSTREET event on Wednesday.
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