As it turned out, the plan for production of ARM processors for server systems, not fiction: Calxeda yesterday officially confirmed its intention to establish serial production of 4-core ARM processor for servers. The first samples will be based on micro-ARM Cortex-A9 and will have four processing cores. The idea is that rack servers, made ​​in the form factor 2U, can have up to 120 such processors (480 cores). According Calxeda, specific energy consumption of such systems will be only 1.25 watts per core. For comparison, this figure in the most cost-effective server (processor-based AMD Opteron) is 5.83 watts per core.

According to Beck, Laura (Laura Beck), Spokesman Calxeda, in what the company intends to increase its ratio of performance per watt for 5-10 times, and price / performance ratio – 15-20 times. She also expressed the hope that Intel and AMD to join this race.

Apparently, the servers with an ARM can hardly compete with solutions based on processors x86, but in terms of power consumption are clearly better. It is also worth noting that the advent of micro-ARM Cortex-A15, they will become even more powerful. As hinted ARM recently, she designed specifically for servers.

It only remains to add that until recently Calxeda was known as Smooth-Stone.

Source: XbitLabs.com