Marvell: Server New Market in cloud environment

Although the x86 architecture still dominates the server and desktop systems, a small number of users have begun to integrate ARM chips into the field. For example, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/2039.html ">marvell, last year, launched their own specifically for the data center customization."

Over the years, arm chips in the mobile phone and tablet development in the field of "a duck in the way", Marvell Business unit head Ajay Rane said, if the server is arm, this communication efficiency will be very high. If the client is arm, and the server is the X86 architecture, then it needs to recompile the binary, the simulation protocol on the X86 can be interoperable, this will increase costs, reduce communication efficiency.

Marvell Business Unit head Ajay Rane

Ajay said that this is a new arm chip market, a lot of basic network facilities suppliers of servers are basically running on Windows or Linux, the ratio is probably half open, and now Linux can run on arm. Marvell has all the technologies related to cloud applications, including storage, servers, networks, etc., to provide the entire SOC solution, so that the unit area performance improvement, other vendors are only part of the better, no one can integrate everything like Marvell.

Arm in the Low-power CPU market has always been quite word-of-mouth, Ajay also no exception to the power advantages, he said, in the vast majority of network maintenance, operating costs are mainly concentrated in electricity, cooling and rent. Especially in places like Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo, and Marvell's Soc is doing very well, and a lot of things can be integrated in a very small area. As companies consider cutting energy consumption, Low-power chip servers will be a concern.

Instead of replacing X86 's existing market, Ajay has seen a new market in which they seek to move from a mobile processor to a data center in a cloud environment that can design faster chips for smaller servers, especially in chip designs.

Cloud computing is indeed the hottest topic in nearly two years, and many people have used cloud services without realizing it, such as Yahoo Mail, Google Gmail and Facebook, and mobile devices have become important terminal tools for cloud computing services, such as cloud handsets. This is a good starting point for ARM chips, which are already widely used in mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets.

Ajay said that arm in the cloud applications have several outstanding advantages, such as performance per watt, per dollar performance, smaller size, these factors will promote the application of arm in the cloud, a good solution to the traditional X86 can not solve the problem.

Marvell is the ARM architecture enterprise application chip that was released a year ago, Ajay revealed that the company soon began to bulk supply to customers, and many customers are already doing mass production.

Marvell is one of the global IT giants looking at the new "cloud computing" market, and according to the Research institute, Cloud Computing does bring astronomical market size. IDC calculates that in the next 3 years global "cloud computing" domain will have the new business revenue of 800 billion dollars.

Ajay that in the cloud application, the user's mode will also change, from the enterprise, desktop gradually to the mobile terminal staged. Of course, this demand for bandwidth is very high, the current Chinese market mobile network is still 2.5G and 3G, with the next two years to usher in the 4G construction period, the cloud computing market will be fully developed and improved.