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Intel Eyes to Power the Web 2.0 Market, Joining Hands with Facebook
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Intel has been a pioneer in the computer processor market since day one. It has never failed to churn out better and faster processors from its R&D labs for the ever-growing Personal Computing market. From mighty powerful processors for the desktop market to the low power consuming processors for laptops, Intel has always had a firm grip over the market, even when AMD has been closely following it in the pursuit to reign the processor market. The company is already shipping processors with 8 cores and has already suggested that developers build application that support thousands of cores together.
Intel is now eying the growing market of Web 2.0 companies over the World Wide Web with new start ups coming up every single day. Most of the web-start ups are resource hungry websites that process vast amount of data and have large number of users. These companies need a strong and powerful infrastructure to back the activity that goes on through the sites. Intel is apparently trying to cash in on this factor and is aiming to power the systems that run these sites.
Currently, there is a huge demand by web start ups to find an infrastructure and system to handle the popularity and the constant activity on their sites. Most web companies rely on the infrastructure provided by data centers to take all the load. Some of the load is taken off by serving content through the various Content Delivery Networks such as Akamai. However, hyperactive sites like Twitter still fail to cope up with the ever increasing activity and popularity.
Dean McCarron, a principal analyst at Mercury Research, says that:
The demand for hardware in the Web 2.0 market to handle data intensive applications will only increase and Facebook could be a springboard for Intel to establish a larger presence in the space.
The Web 2.0 industry is a tremendous growth area and, just like the search industry, Intel has seen its potential and impact. Many search engines now rely on Intel, with Google being one of the heavy investors in Intel components to run its data-crunching servers. One of the things that has happened in the server business with the advent of a ‘bigger’ Internet, mega-data centers have turned into a growth market for higher-end server components.
Intel has announced that it will be supplying chips and programming tools to Facebook, the popular social networking site with over 90 million users and growing. According to this report on PC World, Facebook is expected to buy thousands of servers that include the mighty Xeon 5400 chips. The type and the numbers of these provided will depend on the needs and requirements of Facebook’s engineering team. Apart from these chips, Intel will also be providing software tools such as compilers, debuggers, analysis tools and thread checkers to Facebook.
Nick Knupffer, an Intel Spokesman, said:
The goal is to deliver improvements in performance and enable the thousands of Facebook servers to deliver the greatest overall value and price performance.
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