The trend of the market penetration of ARM server is accelerating

http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13453.html ">arm Server's market penetration rate is accelerating, the mainstream server manufacturers have launched the micro-server products based on ARM architecture." Market research agencies expect the ARM server to reach a market share of 5% to 10% in the global server market by 2016, and 2017 years to 10% to 15%. 2013 Global arm server should be around 20,000, accounting for the global server shipments of 0.2%, and then increase year to 2017, up to 1.06 million units.

Observers point out that the most critical factor in the current impact on ARM server shipments should be support for Windows Server operating systems. If the Windows server operating system supports ARM architecture progress and performance than expected, it will affect the ARM server shipments. While the mainstream Linux server distribution strengthens support for the ARM architecture, the Windows Server operating system still lacks support for arm.