Iliad, the French provider of telecommunications services, launches a cloud service next month based on ARM-based servers which it has built in-house using Marvell chips.
18 servers – each with a quad-core CPU – can fit onto a blade, and 16 blades can fit in a chassis.
The service starts in mid-January and is provided by Iliad subsidiary Online.
ARM saw server chip revenues for the first time this year.
Earlier this year, HP brought out two ARM-based servers – the ProLiant M400 with a 2.4GHz ARMv8-based Applied Micro X-Gene eight-core SoC and M800 which has a 32-bit Texas Instruments quad-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A15 with eight DSP cores.
The M800 is aimed at “businesses wanting VOIP/LTE, seismic processing and/or real-time video transcoding while saving on energy, space and cost,” says HP.. Customers for it include the US Department of Energy’s Sandia National Labs and the University of Utah.
The M400 is for tasks like web caching and PayPal is one customer for it.
Three chip-makers have announced 64-bit ARM v8 chips to go into the server and networking markets.
The Big Beast is the 48 core v8 64-bit 2.5GHz Cavium processor called ThunderX. “ThunderX will enable Cavium to be the first ARM-based vendor to deliver the performance and features required by today’s volume server market at half the power and significantly lower cost compared to competing solutions,” says processor guru Linley Gwennap.
As well as ThunderX, there’s Applied Micro’s eight v8 core X-Gene processor and AMD’s eight v8 core Seattle processor.
ARM vp Pete Hutton sees the server market as a 50 million unit a year opportunity and ARM aspires to a 5-10% market share by 2017. This year it expects a ‘single digit percentage’ share.
However analysts Canaccord reckon ARM server CPUs will have a 20% share of the server chip market by 2018.
Analysts Moor Insights say that, over three years, the cost of buying and running ARM servers could be 35% less than x86 and they use two thirds the number of physical racks.
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