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Cavium ThunderX ARM Chip Rumbles Into Hyperscale
It is not a coincidence that Cavium, a maker of MIPS processors aimed at networking equipment and other embedded uses chose the Computex 2014 conference in Taipei, Taiwan to ...Full Article
ARM Server Chips To Scale To 32 Cores And Beyond
The first wave of 64-bit ARM server processors are just coming out of the fabs from AMD and Applied Micro, and ARM Holdings, the company that licenses the ARM ...Full Article
Why ARM Servers, And Why Now?
It is a pity that smartphones and tablets did not come along earlier and did not need 64-bit processing and memory addressing sooner than they did. Had these consumer ...Full Article
AMD To Unify X86, ARM Systems With SkyBridge
Chip maker AMD wants the world to know that it is not just dabbling in ARM processors, but rather intends to make ARM chips peers to its X86 products. ...Full Article
AMD Sets “Seattle” ARM Server Chip Launch For Q4
Datacenters that are eager to test out 64-bit ARM server chips with their workloads are going to have to wait a bit longer than they might otherwise like to. ...Full Article
Power, ARM Become X86 Peers In Ubuntu Linux
If number two in any market tries harder, then number three has to really work it to get traction. And that is precisely what Canonical, the corporate entity behind ...Full Article
X86 System Sales Grow, Everything Else Shrinks
Sales of servers have always been tied very tightly to the regional and global economies and the ups and downs of various industries. But with the relentless pace of ...Full Article
AMD, Applied Micro Take Fabric Weaving 101 For ARM Server Chips
AMD and Applied Micro, the two biggest and most vocal of the remaining ARM server chip makers now that upstart Calxeda has shut down, have taken up weaving. Both ...Full Article
ARM Raises Server Chip Standard
A lot of things will have to come together before an ecosystem of processors and system makers coalesces around ARM processors. First, companies have to actually get 64-bit chips ...Full Article
AMD Etches “Warsaw” Opterons For Financial Services Friends
AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been ...Full Article