Intel responds with ARM chip login server

[YORK server channel commentary] This year's largest server chip market news should be the advent of 64-bit ARM processors. This is not good news for Intel, as server makers and buyers have new options for server processors. IDC estimates that 2.2 million of the 2.3 million servers sold in the second quarter of last year were based on x86 chips, the majority of which came from Intel.

Low power consumption is also http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13453.html">ARM server chip attraction.With the expansion of the scale of data centers such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and other companies, energy costs Rapid increase, combined with Intel Xeon chips priced higher.ARM much server vendors look forward to, after the constraints of the ARM architecture processor in the server market, an important factor in the 64-bit application support.HP and Dell are planning to sell this year based on the ARM chip server .

Faced with the potential threat of ARM chips, Intel has prepared to deal with, low-energy Atom chips are also adapted for the server. In addition, Intel may also consider the development of customized version of the server chip to meet the specific needs of large customers such as Google, Facebook. If Intel believes the competitive risk does exist and the market opportunity is big enough, it will meet whatever customer needs.