Cavium is latest company to launch an ARM-based server chip for the data center, but the networking chip specialist is doing so with an entire family of ARM-based chips for compute, storage and networking.…
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Calxeda’s done, but ARM’s days in the data center might only be getting started
Calxeda's restructuring was a blow to the ARM-processor-based server market, but hardly a fatal one. While Calxeda started its life trying to build systems using 32-bit chips, there's a whole new market shaping up around 64-bit versions set to debut in 2014.…
Read MoreARM server pioneer Calxeda shuts its office after running out of cash
ARM server maker Calxeda has hit the skids after raising more than $100 million. The company said it will restructure but news reports have the firm shutting down.…
Read MoreApplied Micro’s cloud chip is an ARM-based, switch-killing machine
Applied Micro, a chip company with a market cap of $500 million, is set to take on Intel and AMD with the first 64-bit, ARM-based server part that mimics an entire rack on a chip.…
Read MoreFirst ARM-based servers in production support Baidu’s cloud storage
After years of prepping for this moment, the world's first ARM-based servers have been deployed in a production environment. Chinese search giant Baidu is using Marvell's chips in a cloud storage application.…
Read MoreCalxeda finds a new market in storage
Calxeda, the startup building ARM-based servers for the scale out data center, has sold 130 systems and expects customers to put its systems into production before the end of the second quarter of 2013. Plus, it's finding success in a completely new market -- storage.…
Read MoreGuess who else wants to build ARM-based servers? Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments will join the slew of chipmakers using cell-phone cores in servers. But it has two twists with its KeyStone architecture -- integrated 10 gigabit Ethernet networking and TI's digital signal processing cores to aid in performing complex math.…
Read MoreAMD will challenge Intel with ARM-based server chips. In 2014.
AMD, which has fallen behind its chief rival Intel in the x86 processor business, announced on Monday plans to make new 64-bit chips based on ARM's chip technology that will target data center and cloud computing companies. AMD will continue to make x86 processors as well.…
Read MoreRed Hat-Applied Micro deal is another vote for ARM in the data center
Everyone is jumping on the ARM server bandwagon with Red Hat and Applied Micro the latest vendors to hitch a ride. Cell phone chips in the the data center is a hotly anticipated trend and we're going to see a lot of ecosystem announcements next week.…
Read MoreDell wants to tune big data apps for ARM servers
Dell is donating an ARM-based server to the Apache Software Foundation so contributors can test their projects on new, energy-efficient hardware architectures. Big data projects such as Hadoop and Cassandra are low-hanging fruit, but many webscale applications likely could use them to save power.…
Read MoreThis week in cleantech: Google Ventures, Q3 and the share economy
What happened this week in cleantech on GigaOM Pro, our premium research service? -- The opportunities and risks in the share economy, the third quarter dreary cleantech figures, Google Ventures explains why it backed Nest, and Calxeda forecasts its next low power chip.…
Read MoreDoes big data really need custom hardware?
IBM and Cisco have both launched specialized hardware designed to securely and efficiently handle big data, but is there a large market for specialized big data gear? If there is such a market, are these the boxes that will fill it?…
Read MoreCalxeda gets $55M as ARM-based servers near reality
Calxeda, a company making dense, low-power servers using the same ARM chip architecture found in cell phones, has raised $55 million to take on Intel as well as the myriad other vendors that want to take ARM's low power chips and cram them into servers,…
Read MoreBattery Ventures promotes a partner as enterprise IT keeps going strong
The changes in enterprise IT and infrastructure has been very good for VC firms which have put billions in startups and seen lucrative exits. Now, as IT continues its shift Battery Ventures is promoting Itzik Parnafes to general partner for the next stage of enterprise IT.…
Read MoreOpenStack embraces ARM in latest cloud move
A new ARM-based OpenStack cloud comes online this week, courtesy of HP, Calxeda and Canonical. The new "TryStack" facility gives developers who want to test out OpenStack clouds another flavor to try. The news comes out of the OSCON conference this week.…
Read MoreCan Intel reposition itself for the low power server?
Will hyperscale data centers like those at Facebook, Google and Amazon be willing to adopt low power ARM or even Linux based multi core processors in their data centers?…
Read MoreThe data center has blown up
As we move into the age of webscale and cloud computing the traditional data center architecture is blowing apart, according to execs of startups that have built new kinds of disruptive data center gear and software at the Structure conference on Wednesday in San Francisco.…
Read More10 innovators changing the game for Internet infrastructure
The world of information technology is always changing, but in the last six years it has started to change more rapidly. We celebrate the people who are orchestrating this change. Here's ten innovators that are changing the game of Internet infrastructure.…
Read MoreSee what cloud can do! Dell unveils ARM servers
Dell showed off a box that contains 48 ARM-based servers, joining others making boxes with processors that uses the same architecture as the chips inside your cell phone. The server consumes less power and could find a home in web servers and Hadoop clusters.…
Read MoreSuVolta gets $17.6M to make power-sipping chips
Bright Capital, KPCB, August Capital and NEA have contributed to a $17.6 million funding round in SuVolta, a process technology company. SuVolta doesn’t design chips; it has come up with a novel way to manufacture transistors in a way that makes them use less power.…
Read MoreToday in green IT: low-power servers
In the drive to produce servers based on lower-power chips that reduce operating costs and conserve energy, the $13 billion Cambridge, England–based ARM is seen as the great hope.…
Read MoreIntroducing the 5-watt server that runs on cell phone chips
Can ARM wrestle its way into the server market? Calxeda and HP think so. On Tuesday Calxeda launched its EnergyCore ARM server-on-a-chip (SoC), and the world's largest server maker committed to building EnergyCore-based servers that will consume as little as 5 watts total.…
Read MoreARM’s new IP lets AppliedMicro make cloud servers
Cell phone chips just became more appropriate for server workloads, as ARM released a 64-bit version of its low energy processor. And the first company to take advantage of the new design looks to be AppliedMicro, which will build servers for webscale environments.…
Read MoreThe ARM v. Intel fight just got good
ARM said its next generation architecture will offer cores capable of 64-bit computing. The boost from 32-bits to 64-bits will push ARM-based processors over the last big hurdle keeping the chip IP company outside the enterprise and corporate computing market, and pit it squarely against Intel.…
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