A decade ago, the existence of the chip manufacturer Intel as a real server is not sedominan today. Because the AMD as rivals only in the x86 server chips that time, still can compete with Intel for its success they released the first 64-bit x86 chips precede Opteron Intel.
Later Intel finally had to give in and adopt the x86 64-bit technology from AMD after failing to carry the Intel Itanium architecture (IA-64). Intel Itanium processor architecture, although not fail, less successfully received at the server industry as the problem backward compatible with 32-bit x86 applications.
A decade later, Intel managed to become a leader in the world market with a server chip Xeon server chip family. It is increasingly emphasized since AMD failure to chase each other in a race with Intel server chip. Less successful adoption of x86 "Bulldozer" and was followed by several other failures make mainstay AMD Opteron chips in servers too dim.
According to Gartner research, the dominance of Intel's server until the year 2013 has not shown any signs of decline much less stagnant. In the past year, Intel managed to control 92% of the total sales of server chips and slowly began to compete well with the server chip manufacturers heavyweight (high-end), such as IBM (Power), Oracle, and Fujitsu (Sparc).
Then, like what Qualcomm strategy to begin its penetration into the world of highly dominated the server chip Intel? Qualcomm has been successful in the mobile chips based on ARM see the main advantage of its chips that power saving is also very "feasible" to be applied in the world of servers.
Trends in the need for power-efficient servers to be implemented in enterprise and data center environments to be more in sync with the Qualcomm mission. The application of cloud computing technology to move the aspect compute, storage, and network from the server to the client that continues to increase as well be another contributing factor.
Success or failure of Qualcomm's entrance into the server chip with 64-bit ARM architecture (architecture ARMv8) will depend on several factors, including the successful hook potential clients. Based on the information Qualcomm, snapper clients who are interested in using ARM chip technology from Qualcomm is Facebook.
Facebook, which has a similar data center beskala Google seems to see the positive impact of Qualcomm chips if you want to switch to a non-x86 server chip, as can cut the cost of the investment and operational server.
Qualcomm is not the beginning of a player's ARM-based chips server. Previously, there has been a manufacturer of Marvel, Calxeda, Applied Micro, and AMD also offers innovations. In accordance with the main advantages of ARM-based chips, the Performance per Watt are superior to Intel Xeon server chips. That is why the initial target of their chips targeting the microserver product.
The importance of factors Performance per Watt in a chip, including the world server is also realized by Intel recently very seriously pressing the power consumption of the processor, both for the Intel Atom or Core M (Broadwell architecture).
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
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