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Eetimes. Intel hints at weaving network fabric into Xeons, Atoms. High performance access to file storage IDF 2012 If it wasn't immediately obvious to you, Intel thinks the future of the systems business is weaving interconnection fabrics onto server processors - thus consolidating yet another component of the data center onto the processor and bringing to bear Chipzilla's wafer etching process advantages on that unified chip.

And, if Intel plays its cards right, giving it a sustainable advantage to keep arch-nemesis Advanced Micro Devices and up-and-coming rivals in the ARM collective. "We used to think of a server as a computer, but now the data center has become the computer," Raj Hazra, general manager of technical computing at Intel, told El Reg. Intel hints at weaving network fabric into Xeons, Atoms [printer-friendly] IDF 2012 If it wasn't immediately obvious to you, Intel thinks the future of the systems business is weaving interconnection fabrics onto server processors - thus consolidating yet another component of the data center onto the processor and bringing to bear Chipzilla's wafer etching process advantages on that unified chip.

And, if Intel plays its cards right, giving it a sustainable advantage to keep arch-nemesis Advanced Micro Devices and up-and-coming rivals in the ARM collective. "We used to think of a server as a computer, but now the data center has become the computer," Raj Hazra, general manager of technical computing at Intel, told El Reg. "There is a difference between networks and fabrics, and while there is a place for networks, they lack certain optimizations that fabrics have.