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Making Dollars And Sense Of Arm Holdings
The only thing stronger than having absolute control, as happens in monopolies and oligopolies, is the strength that comes from numbers. …
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Huawei Jumps Into The Arm Server Chip Fray
Arm chip designers who make processors for mobile devices, such as Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm, that do not have pre-existing server businesses have been skittish about entering the server fray with heftier versions of their Arm chips for datacenter compute. …
Cloud
Arm Upstart Ampere Starts Chipping Away At Intel Xeons
When this is all done, Intel might have wished it had kept Renee James as president and chief executive officer, because Ampere, an Arm server chip startup that James has been running since this spring, wants a big piece of the Xeon datacenter business and it has the financial backing to start a price war that others can win and only Intel can lose. …
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Cavium Is Truly A Contender With One-Two Arm Server Punch
It has been two years since chip maker Cavium rolled out its ThunderX Arm server processor roadmap and gave us the first glimpse of its second-generation ThunderX2 processors. …
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ARM Antes Up For An HPC Software Stack
The HPC community is trying to solve the critical compute challenges of next generation high performance computing and ARM considers itself well-positioned to act as a catalyst in this regard. …
Compute
Qualcomm Fires ARM Server Salvo, Broadcom Silences Guns
Depending on how you want to look at it, the half dozen companies that have aspired to bring ARM architecture to the datacenter through chips designed specifically to run server workloads are either very late to market or very early. …
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Details Emerge On China’s 64-Core ARM Chip
While the world awaits the AMD K12 and Qualcomm Hydra ARM server chips to join the ranks of the Applied Micro X-Gene and Cavium ThunderX processors already in the market, it could be upstart Chinese chip maker Phytium Technology that gets a brawny chip into the field first and also gets traction among actual datacenter server customers, not just tire kickers. …
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Inside China’s Homegrown 64-Core ARM Big Iron Chip
A little-known upstart Chinese chip maker called Phytium Technology was set to use the Hot Chips 27 conference in Silicon Valley as a coming out party of sorts for its 64-bit ARM server processors, and the company’s director of research, Charles Zhang, was not permitted to come to the event because of visa issues. …