What does an off-limits part of a National Park have to do with RAID controllers? Everything when it’s the code name of a new Intel processor. Jasper Forest, a remote valley in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, is one of the richest fossil fields on the planet. It is also a new family of Intel processors, based on the Nehalem 45-nanometer technology. Jasper Forest provides a scalable option to design with a single-core, 23-watt processor to a quad-core, 85-watt processor using the same socket. With integrated PCI Express and RAID circuits, the new family of processors will reduce the chip count and power consumption in a variety of communications and storage controller applications, while providing Xeon-class performance to embedded applications.
The integrated PCIe Gen 2.0 circuit with Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) provides integration ease with the growing number of products available to support 10Gigibit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Serial Attached SCSI and conventional Fibre Channel. On chip Asynchronous DRAM and battery backup along with integrated RAID acceleration add further features for storage controllers. Availability is pegged for early 2010. Pricing has not been released
