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Submitted by BeastOrange 320d ago | article

Wimpy cores are coming to Facebook. But which cores?

GigaOM: Facebook has made waves by detailing its plans to use what an executive calls “cell-phone chips” — or “wimpy cores” — in its future data centers. Frank Frankovsky, the VP of infrastructure at Facebook told me that the social network plans to test such chips now and throughout next year, with plans to have them in production in 2014. (Culture, Facebook, Industry, Services)

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