Intel Corp. unveiled its latest microserver processor and System-on-Chip (SoC) product to tackle the hyper-scale data center market Wednesday. Along with the announcement, a number of IT vendors unveiled products based on the new Atom C2000 chip.

Here's a roundup of some of these products:

Quanta's massive-density S1M microserver

Quanta QCT, the Silicon Valley subsidiary of Taiwanese manufacturing giant Quanta Computer, brought to market a 42-node C2000-based microserver called S1M.

The machine has two shelves of server sleds: one with 24 node sleds and another, with 18 sleds behind it. The 2U chassis is designed to the Open Rack spec developed by the Facebook-led Open Compute Project.

While Open Compute specs are open-source, Quanta has patented the “hidden-shelf” chassis design, where the 18-sled shelf “hides” behind the higher-density one. Both shelves are accessible from the cold aisle.

Traffic from all 42 nodes is aggregated by Intel's Ethernet Switch FM5224 (also unveiled Wednesday), which provides two high-bandwidth 40GbE uplink connections.

Znyx offers easy path from 10GbE to 40GbE

One of the firms first to market with a networking product based on the new chip was Fremont-based Znyx Networks, which announced the ZX2040 AdvancedTCA hub switch with integrated shelf manager built around the eight-core Atom processor.

The switch enables users to upgrade their ZX2000 platform from 10GbE fabric to 40GbE quickly and easily, according to the vendor.

Penguin rolls up sleeves on another OCP design

Penguin Computing, the computer manufacturer with a high-performance computing (HPC) angle headquartered (like Quanta QCT and Znyx) in Fremont, California, also announced it was adding a C2000-based microserver to its product roadmap, but offered little in terms of specs of the future product.

The company said only that it would also be based on an Open Compute spec.

HP previews C2000-based Moonshot microserver

Another vendor that announced plans to bring a C2000-based microserver to the market but revealed little about it was HP. The company's spokesperson told us it would be part of the Moonshot microserver product family and would be called Moonshot ProLiant m300.