Worth pointing out that these are new ARM processors, potentially 3x faster than the (very) old ARM processors it was using before. I still think they should'v

Worth pointing out that these are new ARM processors, potentially 3x faster than the (very) old ARM processors it was using before. I still think they should've gone with Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 [1] platform, though, which I think will be significantly ahead in performance and perf/W than either Cavium or APM's processors. I guess they went for that sweet price/performance value, but I think in ARM's case, it's worth going with the best there is, if nothing else to not continue the "too slow" stigma that ARM gets in servers, which can only hurt any ARM-based vendor. In my view, it would be better to offer similar or better performance than Xeon D (or other Xeons, depending on number of cores) for 20% less than offer half the performance for 50-60% less. [1] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/12/07/meet-qualcomm-centriq-2400-worlds-first-10-nanometer-server-processor https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/12/07/meet-qualcomm-c...