Silvermont
Synology recently launched the DS415+, their first Intel Rangeley-based NAS. This 4-bay NAS, targeted towards SMBs and SOHOs, finally brings about hardware accelerated encryption capabilities to DSM in the desktop tower form factor. The Rangeley platform also provides a host of other advantages in a storage device. Read on for our review of the DS415+ to identify what Synology's DSM can do in conjunction with one of the latest Atom-based storage platform SoCs from Intel.
Seagate's Intel Rangeley NAS Pro 4-bay Review
Seagate recently rebooted their NAS offerings, completely revamping their 2013 Business Storage lineup and dropping that software platform altogether. In its place, they adopted a Debian-based offering, NAS OS...
14 by Ganesh T S on 8/27/2014Computex 2014: GIGABYTE Server Shows 46x Avoton C2750 Microserver in 2U
For the few server-oriented business units I visited during Computex, a number of them were showing new Avoton oriented rackmount microservers. At GIGABYTE's Server unit, I was shown...
11 by Ian Cutress on 6/12/2014Computex 2014: All new Intel Atom based Fonepad 8, MeMO Pad 7, MeMO Pad 8
Alongside the smartphone element inside the Transformer Book V announced today, it would seem that the Silvermont-based Intel Atom series is pushing more in to the mass market via...
15 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2014GIGABYTE Server Launches New C2750 Mini-ITX and 2P ATX LGA2011
Despite the C2750 coming to market officially in Q3 2013, we have not seen many products that exploit the possibilities that the new 8-core Silvermont SoC provides. We reviewed...
13 by Ian Cutress on 5/21/2014ASRock Rack C2750D4I Review: A Storage Motherboard with Management
One of the purposes of Intel’s Avoton CPUs is cold storage. ASRock produced the C2750D4I for that need – a mini-ITX motherboard with a 25W eight core CPU, support...
85 by Ian Cutress on 4/29/201410W Bay Trail-D Coming To Market from GIGABYTE and Biostar
News on the grapevine is filtering down for Bay Trail-D. We have had the 20W Avoton server equivalent processor in our offices for a little while now, but...
55 by Ian Cutress on 2/4/2014ECS Reveals Bay Trail-D Mini-ITX Line
With Intel's Bay Trail platform and Silvermont Atom cores in the news for tablets, we have spotted their use in mini-ITX platforms as far pack as Computex 2013 where...
41 by Ian Cutress on 10/23/2013Dell Introduces 8-inch Bay Trail Venue tablet at IDF
Next up is Dell's 8-inch Venue Bay Trail tablet. We don't have any specs other than screen size, but that makes two Bay Trail design wins announced at IDF...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2013ASUS Introduces T100: Bay Trail based 2-in-1 Tablet
ASUS CEO Jerry Shen just pre-announced the ASUS T100, a Bay Trail 2-in-1 tablet (dockable) with up to 11 hours of battery life. Think Transformer goes Intel. I believe...
11 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2013The Bay Trail Preview: Intel Atom Z3770 Tested
Earlier this year Intel unveiled Silvermont, its first true architectural update to Atom since its introduction in 2008. I won’t rehash Silvermont’s architecture here, but it’s designed to be...
190 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 9/11/2013Intel Teases Baytrail Performance with Atom Z3770 Cinebench Score
Intel's lone ranger and Principal Engineer, Francois Piednoël, published one of the first semi-official Baytrail benchmarks on his Twitter feed earlier today. The score is for the unannounced Atom...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/4/2013Silvermont to Sell under Atom, Celeron and Pentium Brands, 2.4GHz Z3770 Leaked
During Computex a bit of Intel news leaked out that I didn't have time to talk about. Now that I'm back in the US, it's time to play catch...
17 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/9/2013Intel Demonstrates Bay Trail-T Running Windows 8 and Android 4.2.2
Last month Intel took the covers off its next-generation Atom microarchitecture, codename Silvermont. The first consumer implementation of Silvermont will be Bay Trail, a quad-core SoC for tablets. At...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/6/2013Intel’s Silvermont Architecture Revealed: Getting Serious About Mobile
The most frustrating part about covering Intel’s journey into mobile over the past five years is just how long it’s taken to get here. The CPU cores used in...
174 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2013Intel's Silvermont: A New Atom Architecture
Brooke Crothers broke a very important story today - he published the name Silvermont. Atom's first incarnation came to us in 2008 as a Pentium-like dual-issue in-order microprocessor. The...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/12/2011