Arm and AMD propulsion arm chip in data Center application

"Tenkine Server Channel comments" into the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/33721.html ">2014 years, arm and AMD two companies continue to work for the arm chip in the data center of the application of open territory. ARM's joint partners released the ARM server infrastructure Architecture specification, which is designed to define basic requirements for ARM SOC and help third-party vendors design and manufacture server products based on ARM processors.

At the same time, AMD disclosed more details of the Opteron A1100 series processor based on the 64-bit ARM architecture. In addition, AMD has demonstrated a comprehensive development platform designed for 64-bit ARM server CPUs, and announced that it will contribute to the Open Source Computing project (open Compute Project) with its new micro-server design, which will be based on the AMD Hao long a series processor.

AMD's 64-bit ARM chip also conforms to ARM's latest ARM server infrastructure Architecture specification, making AMD's products a great choice for developers and users looking for an industry-standard arm server. At present, data center providers try to purchase standard hardware by themselves, and implement resource delivery and management in the way of software definition data center. At present, the application of ARM chip in server market lacks standardization, only standardization can realize mass production and large-scale application. The high share of the x86 chip in the data center benefits from its standardization of modularity.

The ARM server not only explores the hardware standardization, but also actively promotes the software ecosystem. For example, the mainstream Linux distribution has started to support the arm architecture, while in the ARM server infrastructure specification of the participants in the Microsoft, which gives the industry a lot of imagination space. Maybe we'll soon see an arm server running Windows Server or Hyper-V.

At present in the data center market, the x86 server is still the mainstream, after all, x86 's biosphere is more perfect. But this does not mean that ARM does not have the opportunity to deal with the lightweight workload of ARM's advantage is obvious to all. On a high-density micro server, ARM's power consumption is lower and can achieve a higher deployment density than the x86 chip. 2014 is an extremely important arm server development year, ARM hardware products will appear in large numbers this year, if you can open the breach in enterprise applications, ARM server market space will be greater.

Intel is not watching arm's aggressiveness and Intel is developing Low-power Atom and SOC products. The showdown between Intel and arm is inevitable in a low-power, high-density micro-server market.