Comments on: AppliedMicro X-Gene ARMv8 64-bit Server-on-chip shown on FPGA

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Smart HDD virus removal — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:05:00 +0000

I like ARM powered servers. Really great!

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By: Charbax

Charbax — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:41:00 +0000

Sure, I understand things take time. But maybe Google is very eager to save some money on their current $10 Billion (or however much) yearly server cost. So maybe as ARM Cortex-A15 is to be ready for consumer devices in a year, maybe someone invests to also have ARM Cortex-A15 ready for servers at the same time. And yes I understand that AppliedMicro’s ARMv8 samples to be delivered a year from now might mean full production chips aren’t ready before 2 years from now, or later. The point is, the servers industry is something like a $60 Billion per year industry today and it may be growing fast now that Google and others need to expand their cloud computing capacity.

By: Karel Gardas

Karel Gardas — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:23:00 +0000

Charbax, w.r.t. ARM updates in servers you are overoptimistic I’m afraid! Calxeda just give out some *samples* of their EnergyCore Processor and you already plan next iteraction using A15 core? And not only but also update to ARMv8 A64? Don’t forget that this all takes time! If you dream about A15 in consumer devices in 2012, then be assured that A15 in consumer devices is something completely different than A15 in servers. Your dream about X-Gene next year in servers is also way out. If we get some samples or FPGA-based implementations of X-Gene then great, but certainly this will not be full 128 core chip running on 3GHz! Not at all! Also samples/fpgas will be delivered just to make sure developers are working on porting their compilers to this *new* architecture! Since well, A64 is really new in the same way like AMD64 was few years ago. And just judge how long it took to OS/compilers folks to be ready for real lunch of Opteron?
So well, just cool down a little bit.