SeaMicro has developed a server that packs in 512 low-power Intel Atom processors on small motherboards the size of credit cards, the corporation proclaimed.

Atom processors are more frequently found in netbooks, but Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro's CEO, says they can be more power-efficient than x86 chips for sure cloud and Web deal workloads. Such contact is inclined to be smaller in size but higher in volume.

"Today's servers are incompetent on small workloads," Feldman said.

Higher-performance chips similar to Intel's Xeon and superior Micro Devices' Opteron are competent at running customary venture workloads such as folder applications, he said.

But he considers a collection of small Atom cores offer better performance-per-watt in the cloud.

"Atom turns out to be good at normal difficulties and not great at hard problems. The Internet is all about normal problems," Feldman said.