ARM ecosystem form 2014 service enterprise application

Recently, in the ARM at the 2012 annual meeting of the ARM processor department application processor product director Nandan Nayampally said, ARM has started with various manufacturers started to develop enterprise-level server products.

At present, the launch ARM server vendors are mainly Calxeda, Seamicro and ShenDa, etc. And in 2012, the manufacturers AMD more with ARM cooperation push ARM architecture server chips; The original main X86 framework server manufacturers dell and HP also announced will launch ARM architecture server products, among them, in the end of 2011 HP announced the development of code for "Moonshot plan" low power consumption server, at present, HP has and processor manufacturers Calxeda cooperation unveiling a high density of the ARM architecture service Redstone. At the same time, dell also launched in May Cooper plan, dell and another processing manufacturers Marvell cooperation, launch ARM processor architecture concept products. IDC enterprise application research GaoZhenWei market analyst said, dell, HP and server vendors to join ARM ecological system will definitely positive influence ARM server product development.

At present, in has launched the ARM architecture server products, carrying processor for ARM Cortex - A15 or A9 processor, it is ten percent of the 32 bit products, carrying operating system basic for Ubuntu. Low power consumption of the 32 bit products is always a stumbling block to block ARM continued development. Because most of the enterprise application X86 64 bits products, operating system support for Windows Server. And itself is not compatible with X86 ARM. Plus ARM software system is weak, this is all obstacles enterprises to choose the cause of the ARM. As ARM64 a processor Cortex - A50 series in appeared in 2012, as well as many software company announced on ARM architecture support, ARM weakness in reducing gradually.

In conclusion it seems ARM server ecological system has begun to form, ARM its defects have been up against difficulties at present, the greater is the ARM in the server market fighting experience too little, can bring much impact on X86 is hard to discern. It is reported, 2014, ARM architecture server products will begin to real service enterprise application.