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Calxeda Primes Pump for ARM Server Adoption

• zwieback 15y ago
  As an embedded systems developer I'm well aware of the very low power processors with ARM cores but I'm wondering how this really transfers to the server world. It seems to me that large DRAM, cache and fast disk drives and I/O peripherals must be the main issues driving power consumption. Those won't go away, will they? The Calxeda guy said that lower clock speeds and higher core counts are the key factors of his product, which isn't necessarily something only ARM can do. I'm wondering why Intel couldn't build servers along the same lines.
  • 6ren 15y ago
    SSD are supposedly making similar inroads in the server space, for that reason. I don't think there's much IO in a server farm, apart from ethernet. Does DRAM draw a lot of power? Intel's problem is backcompatibility: x86 spends silicon (and power) on it, but they can't give it up because it's their main selling point.