Intel started shipping the new Pentium 350, a model designed specifically for
low-cost servers, micro-servers, and home servers; a segment Intel
originally planned to address with some of its Atom dual-core chips. The
Pentium 350 is an offshoot from entry-level desktop and notebook
platforms the Pentium brand is currently in charge of, it is designed
with durability and energy-efficiency required by servers in mind.
Available in the LGA1155 package, Pentium 350 is a dual-core processor
based on the 32 nm Sandy Bridge dual-core silicon. It is clocked at 1.20
GHz, and features 3 MB of shared L3 cache apart from 256 KB L2 cache
per core. Thanks to its low clock speed, the chip's TDP is rated at just
15W, making it ideal for home and small business servers. It will
naturally benefit from the high IPC of Sandy Bridge architecture. The
chip features Intel64 instruction set, its integrated memory controller
supports up to 32 GB of dual-channel DDR3-1066/DDR3-1333 MHz memory.
Its on-chip graphics controller is disabled (so it relies on the one
server boards come with, or any discrete graphics card). Moving on to
its feature-set, HyperThreading Technology is available, enabling 4
logical CPUs for the operating system
to deal with. The latest AVX instruction set is lacking, though SSE
instruction sets up to SSE4.2 are available. VT-x finds room. Fast
memory access, flex memory access, and NX-bit wrap it up. There is no
word on the retail pricing.
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