Startup builds power-efficient servers from netbook chips

Wired : The small inexpensive laptops known as netbooks run on batteries for much longer than do regular laptops. That’s because netbook processors, being less powerful and less versatile, consume less energy. Now, SeaMicro , a startup company in Santa Clara, California, has found a way to exploit the frugality of netbook chips to build small, cheap computer servers. SeaMicro’s solution, as you might guess, is to yoke a large number of the chips—512 in fact—together.