Like mobile devices, power efficiency is a key concern for servers. Businesses keenly watch how to minimize the power they use per unit of computing power.More info at DailyTech.
But Intel is convinced that businesses won't be interested in ARM servers, as it admits that its own efforts to put Atom systems-on-a-chip on servers was met with disappointment. States Mr. Skaugen:
We’ve been out talking about Atom and servers for... And candidly, there hasn’t been a lot of interest in that architecture in a broad sense. I could see if you go out four to five years maybe 10% of the total market, give or take a couple percent, could be interested in such an architecture.
Intel: ARM too weak and limited for server market
Posted on Saturday, March 05 2011 @ 3:55 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck