For a more fair comparison, paypal recently deployed X-Gene ARM servers[1]. They said about it: "“The X-Gene-equipped units [at PayPal] cost approximately one-h

For a more fair comparison, paypal recently deployed X-Gene ARM servers[1]. They said about it: "“The X-Gene-equipped units [at PayPal] cost approximately one-half the price of traditional data center infrastructure hardware and incurred only one-seventh of the annual running cost,”".I assume they compared it to an equally powerful intel system. [1]http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/04/29/paypal-deploys-arm-servers-in-data-centers/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/04/29/paypa...