Comments on: ARM Ready to Take on Intel in Servers

By: Under Competitive Pressure, Intel Builds Low Power Server Chip For a Startup: Cloud Computing News «

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:01:04 +0000

[...] SeaMicro has introduced its second high-density server that uses 256 dual-core Atom chips crammed into a box in oder to deliver power efficient computing at about a fourth of the power consumption of a traditional rack of machines. But the biggest news about this server is pretty small, namely the dual-core Atom chip that Intel has manufactured to go inside the SeaMicro box– perhaps the first time Intel has built a chip especially for a startup and a sign of how Intel will defend its x86 server territory from rival ARM. [...]

By: The Feds Want Faster, Greener Supercomputers : Cloud Computing News «

The Feds Want Faster, Greener Supercomputers : Cloud Computing News « — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:14:02 +0000

[...] rather than later for webscale computing or corporate IT departments. Perhaps we’ll see an ARM-based supercomputer or an entirely new architecture emerge if this funding is actually allocated. Maybe we’ll get [...]

By: Can Intel and $50B in IT Budgets Achieve Open Clouds?: Cloud «

Can Intel and $50B in IT Budgets Achieve Open Clouds?: Cloud « — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:42:32 +0000

[...] the processor. It seems very possible that ideal cloud architectures would include a mix of AMD, ARM, Nvidia and Intel processors. If Intel is serious about interoperability, why not try to pull its [...]

By: GigaOM’s Top 15 Mobilize Influencers 2010: Tech News «

GigaOM’s Top 15 Mobilize Influencers 2010: Tech News « — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:17:19 +0000

[...] by partnering with the likes of Qualcomm, Broadcom, Texas Instruments and Apple, the company is positioned to become the Intel of the post-PC era, without so much as making a single chip itself. Nearly 20 [...]

By: Kamal Hussain

Kamal Hussain — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:25:00 +0000

I am not surprised at all, while Intel is moving down and ARM is taking it place to become the dominant CPU Company in the world, there is very little Intel can do to stop ARM marching forward. I have today learnt that the WinTel monopoly it enjoyed for decade has come to and end, this is because Microsoft has purchased an ARM advanced license so that they can port the new window 8 for ARM.

There are also rumours that Microsoft may go alone the way apple has gone and create it own CPU based on the ARM design reference such as the A4 from apple developed using ARM design.

By: AMD and Intel Won’t Let x86 Die Without a Fight

AMD and Intel Won’t Let x86 Die Without a Fight — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:56:49 +0000

[...] outlined how a host of companies ranging from Marvell to SmoothStone are experimenting with the ARM architecture used in cell phones to build lower-power servers, which poses a threat to Intel and AMD’s core [...]

By: For ARM, It’s Server Side Up

For ARM, It’s Server Side Up — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:58 +0000

[...] Stacey, in a post earlier this year noted: The news shouldn’t come as a surprise to our readers, since I profiled Smooth-Stone, one company trying to build low-power servers earlier this month, and in that same post pointed to ARM’s server ambitions. And it’s not just startups that are interested in using the low-power ARM architecture inside data centers, either. Google recently acquired a secretive startup called Agnilux that was rumored to be making a server with the ARM architecture. We also reported on a Microsoft job listing that sought a software development engineer with experience running ARM in the data center for the company’s eXtreme Computing group. For the last couple of decades, Intel’s x86 chips have gained dominance in the data center, but as power considerations begin to outweigh the benefits of a cheap, general purpose processor, other chip makers have started to smell blood. Nvidia is pushing its graphics processors for some types of applications, while Texas Instruments is researching the use of DSPs inside servers. [...]

By: Tilera Offering Tweaked Hardware for the Cloud

Tilera Offering Tweaked Hardware for the Cloud — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:31:36 +0000

[...] on the economy, has led to several startups such as SeaMicro and Smooth-Stone, as well as bigger industry players such as ARM and Marvell to think about re-architecting the [...]

By: Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win « wesley83's Blog

Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win « wesley83's Blog — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:43:43 +0000

[...] are likely a few reasons for its death and the simultaneous survival of GPUs from which those pushing ARM-based servers should learn. In the Darwinian environment of the data center, where the search for energy efficiency, [...]

By: Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win

Nvidia Shows Off Its Survival Skills With IBM Win — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:01:38 +0000