ARM Chips Away at Intel's Server Business!

By SemiWiki

November 7, 2011

 When Intel entered the server market in the 1990s with their Pentium Processor and follow on Xeons beginning in 1998, they focused on the simple enterprise applications. At the same time they laid the groundwork for what will turn out to be a multi-decade, long war to wrest control from all mainframes and workstations. The announcements this past week by Calxeda with the first 32-bit ARM server chip and by ARM with their new 64-bit server architecture known as the "v8 Core" we see a similar strategy unfolding. We should not be surprised at ARMs aggressive push into server but we should also recognize that the battle between ARM and Intel will also occur over decades with many new interesting twists and alliances.

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