Intel unveiled first products under its new brand for many-integrated-core processors Xeon Phi at this week’s SC conference for the supercomputing industry in Salt Lake City.

Xeon Phi is a co-processor, working in tandem with the chipmaker’s Xeon-family x86 processors. Phi brings parallel processing to the relationship for high-performance-computing (HPC) applications.

The company announced to Xeon Phi product families at the show: 3100 and 5110P. The former (expected to ship in the first half of 2013) is optimized for raw performance, while the latter (already shipping) is designed to maximize performance per watt.

Texas Instruments launches server SoCs

Texas Instruments (TI) unveiled six System-on-a-Chip (SoC) server nodes carrying processors based on ARM Cortex architecture. With the release, the company is going after a variety of markets, including high-performance computing (HPC), cloud infrastructure, video and networking equipment, to name a few.

The release includes a one-processor SoC, two two-core ones and three four-core cards. TI is using ARM’s Cortex-A15 processor architecture.

The 66AK2H06 two-processor SoC and the 66AK2H12 four-processor one are for HPC, media processing, virtual desktop infrastructure and more. The two SoCs for cloud servers and networking equipment are the two-core AM5K2E02 and the four-core AM5K2E04.

Scalable Informatics puts ARM chips in high-end storage system

Scalable Informatics, a vendor of tightly coupled storage and compute solutions for HPC, analytics and other data-intensive applications, announced a compute-storage system based on ARM SoCs by Calxeda.

The JackRabbit-EC packs 240 terabytes of storage and 192 ARM cores into a 4U chassis for high-performance storage and computing. As an option, the unit can use 60 960GB solid-state drives.