ARM server chip maker Calxeda announces company collapse

"Tenkine Server channel December 20 exclusive message" http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13453.html ">arm server chip manufacturer Calxeda announced the company's collapse, The company is now seeking to sell its assets. This is really the "pioneer became martyrs" sentence, Calxeda in the arm Low-power server market has been the innovation leader, now the company has exhausted its funds can not maintain the operation of the company.

Calxeda was established in 2008 and received 100 million dollar capital support, including arm. Calxeda's goal is to provide arm chips that are cheaper and less power-consuming than traditional x86 chips. In 2011, Calxeda launched a low-power server with a core of 480 arm processors. and HP's micro-server Project moonshot system will also use Calxeda chip products. Calxeda said that although the company has made a problem, they will still support HP's high density ARM server project.

Why is Calxeda going bankrupt? Industry professionals point out that Calxeda is spending too much money on the development of 32-bit ARM processors, but the server market does not need 32 bits, but a 64-bit processor chip. The current reality is that AMD and Appliedmicro are beginning to put the 64-bit ARM server chip development and production of the agenda, and at this time Calxeda has no funds to carry out 64-bit project development.