Chipping Away

摘要

Wincom systems, a fledgling firm in Silicon Valley, is set to introduce a pretty amazing new computer. Specially designed to run Web sites, the server is about the size of a DVD player and can do the work of 50 or more $5,000 servers from Dell, IBM or Sun Microsystems. And it costs only $25,000. Even more amazing is that Win-Corn's designers, former IBM and Cisco engineers, built it without relying on the single most crucial component in every computer in the world―a microprocessor.