Product category: PC-Compatible Boards and Assemblies
News Release from: Flextronics - Short Range Wireless | Subject: G700
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 5 April 2007
Quad-core platform hosts
OEM and ODM designs
The scalable G700 uses the quad-core E5335 Intel Xeon processor and the Intel 5000P chipset and maximises available PCI Express I/O through modularity
Flextronics has unveiled its G700 quad-core platform for OEM and ODM designs. The scalable G700 uses the quad-core E5335 Intel Xeon processor and the Intel 5000P chipset and maximises available PCI Express I/O through modularity. 'We developed a flexible rack-mount platform containing two quad-core Intel processors for customers seeking a high-performance, scalable solution for various networking, security and storage appliance applications', said Sean Burke, President of Flextronics' Computing Segment.
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'With its modular I/O approach, OEM and ODM customers can increase value to end users and offer various G700 models with options for gigabit Ethernet (copper and fibre), 10GbE, Infiniband, storage, security acceleration for IPSec and SSL and many more modular options'.
Burke added: 'Today's announcement underscores our commitment to provide OEM and ODM customers with the right platforms and technologies to increase their competitiveness in a dynamic market'.
'Flextronics' ability to design and manufacture Intel architecture based motherboards and solutions supports our strategy to deliver enhanced services to our customers, and reinforces our position as a leader in advanced ODM and EMS products and services for customer branded systems and solutions'.
'The availability of innovative systems with the latest Intel technologies, such as the Flextronics G700 platform, means that OEM/ODM customers can build high performance systems and get to market very quickly', said Joe Jensen, General Manager of Intel's Embedded Markets Division.
'The quad-core Intel Xeon processor doubles the compute density over previous dual-core Intel processors to meet the needs of intensive workloads in network, security and storage appliance applications'.
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The G700 includes eight cores per platform, which provides breakthrough performance and energy-efficiency for high performance network appliance and security appliance applications such as firewalls, unified threat management, intrusion detection systems, network attached storage and other filtering applications.
A G700 based on the quad-core Intel Xeon processor and associated Intel 5000P chipset also provides an excellent solution for intense computing and I/O-intensive workloads within high-end communications and enterprise systems.
This includes rack-mount servers, as well as NAS and SAN systems and other graphics intensive workstation environments in modelling, imaging and design environments.
The superior performance is available off-the-shelf as the G700 base system or highly customised version specific to OEM/ODM customer requirements.
The G700 features Intel I/O acceleration technology, Intel 64 architecture and Intel virtualisation technology in a 2U chassis with hot swappable fans, powers supplies and removable hard drives.
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