Intel has decided to breathe new life into the world renowned Pentium processors for servers. It has recently started shipping the all new Pentium 350 chips for its low end servers. The dual core Pentium processors functions at a speed of 1.2GHz and has 3MB of supply. The all new Pentium 350 lacks in the presence of integrated graphics which are present in Intel’s laptop as well as desktop processors.


The highly renowned Pentium processors are available in the market since a while now, but have remained targeted for the use in desktops and budget laptops only. Initially, Pentium was known as the flagship of the PC processor line for Intel products. In the present date, this mantle is held by the Intel’s Core chips. Intel had once upon a time offered the Pentium III as well as Pentium II Xeon processors for its numerous servers.


According to an Intel’s spokesperson the chip is targeted for use in the micro servers. The micro servers used by Intel are low in power and utilize compact servers for a variety of services. The main services of the company include web serving as well as content delivery service. At the present date, Intel is offering Xeon E3 chips and is anticipated to launch some new chips which are developed on Atom for micro servers.


According to Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, the launch of new processor actually acknowledges the staying power of Pentium in market. As per McCarron, in addition to micro servers, the all new Pentium 350 can be utilized in a variety of reasonably priced task specific servers for printing, storage and document sharing.
Mc Carron said, “What we're seeing is a repurposed part.” Further, he focused that Pentium 350 is actually the cheaper version of the PC chips by Intel. These chips can be widely used in servers and are definitely much highly priced with its additional features like integrated graphics.


According to McCarron, the new processor by Intel draws the power of 15 watts. This concludes that processor has bleak chances of using the blades. Nevertheless, the processor must not be understood as the replacement to already available low power Atom processor by Intel. These processors are specifically designed for net books, tablets but have also found usage in the high density servers like SeaMicro's SM10000-64HD. The server is used to process all kinds of cloud transactions.


It is quite possible that Intel’s plan for targeting the Pentium chip at servers could be an indication that it plans to replace the Celeron brand, which is a widely recognized as the lowest rung for the Intel processors. In the modern times, Celeron processors are being installed in numerous cheaply priced laptops and desktops. Celeron processors are also used in some of the low end servers as well. According to sources, Intel has turned down the argument to provide any pricing related information about the much talked about Pentium 350.