ARM Server Built by Taiwanese Manufacturer MiTAC Revealed - hermanwerharters

Gir happening Tuesday showed a server using its processors built by Taiwanese manufacturer MiTAC, which will join U.S. makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard in producing ARM-based servers.

The GFX Host uses 1.6GHz ARM processors and is ready to take to the woods a variant of the Linux-based Ubuntu OS, which ARM showed in a live demo at the Computex exhibition in Taiwan.

ARM is a U.K. company that licenses processor designs to chip makers. Its designs are often used in mobile phones and other consumer electronics. The firm is targeting the lucrative host space, but acknowledged Tuesday that its processors will initially constitute best suited for less intensive tasks.

"Certainly web serving, what I would call middle-tier up applications, like mem-stash is a good meet, and offline analytics," aforementioned Ian Ferguson, director of server systems at ARM.

Sleeve said the newly revealed host has a 4U rackmount chassis, with 64 ARM processors for a total of 256 cores.

ARM said the 32-bite waiter chips will go on sale this year, and Applied Micro will release the first 64-fleck Weapon platforms for servers in ripe 2022. Processors based on the ARMv8 weapons platform will be discharged in 2022.

ARM is working to crack the server market, which is booming as companies expand their overcast-based services, but the company's architecture nonmoving lags behindhand rivals from Intel and AMD. Piece a majority of smartphone and tablet software is written for ARM processors, very young server package is being cursive for the architecture.

Still, the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) software stack has also been optimized for Subdivision, and Hadoop, Openstack and Java wealthy person also been optimized for ARM.

Dell has announced a low-power server with Fortify processors. Hewlett-Packard has announced ARM-based server designs and chip maker Nvidia has mixed its Tegra 3 chips and graphics processors in a Barcelona supercomputer.

Computex, which runs this week in Capital of Taiwan, is one of Asia's largest consumer electronics and component exhibitions.