Dell ARM

At the end of October, 2013 Dell and HP made significant progress in creation of new, energy efficient corporate servers which work on ARM chips, but not Intel. The market of smartphones and tablets was traditionally main market for ARM chips.

The new services based on ARM chips are rather powerful, but consume comparably less energy, than the majority of modern servers in which compound components of Intel are used. Both Dell, and HP, announced fast release of servers on the basis of the ARM components during taking place at the end of October, 2013 in California, the USA, the ARM TechCon conferences.

However, the announcement did not become surprise: Worked as Dell on these products for a number of years, but still it did not manage to bring to the market commercially successful line of servers as chips of Intel more were suitable for creation of the servers capable to process considerable volumes of corporate information. If more precisely, then chips were the 32-bit systems, and for the software were required 64-bit. 64-bit servers differ big to capacities and high-speed performance so creation of 64-bit servers on ARM and was a main objective.

At the mentioned TechCon Dell conference showed 64-bit servers on ARM running the Linux operating system. At this Dell only one of vendors which is going to put similar products on the market in 2014. Also at the end of October, 2013 the final release of a new line of HP servers of Moonshot in which ARM chips from Calxeda are used took place, declared a top — the manager of HP John Gromala. However, at the moment are only available to clients 32-bit the Moonshot servers on ARM.

Intel, certainly, prepares for approach of competitors and already released 64-bit Atom chips which are also differing in energy efficiency. The software companies also prepare for emergence in the market of servers of new type, for example, Red Hat works on software which will suit both 32-bit, and 64-bit ARM servers.

Also Intel announced that Since 2014 it will be engaged in production of processors with the competing architecture of ARM. Their customer is the old partner, the Californian developer of chips Altera.