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Live Chat Underdog, disrupter and casualty – AMD’s been on a rollercoaster ride in its battle against Intel.
AMD rose on the strength of its 64-bit, x86-compatible server processors as Intel was penalised on Itanium; Intel re-bounded with the Xeon E5 as AMD got dragged down by IT spending cuts and problems with its Barcelona Opterons.
Intel up, AMD down; order has been restored to The Force.
Or has it? AMD this week opened a new front by jumping on the freshest, most fashionable idea to hit servers since SSD: ARM. It became an ARM licensee.
AMD is the latest to go ARM: Hewlett-Packard and Samsung are in the ARMs race, too, while Ubuntu-shop Canonical’s tuned its Linux to run on ARM servers.
Has the geekiest and most under-the-covers of British tech success stories finally come of age? Are ARM servers about to become a reality?
What does it mean for Intel, AMD and server-makers? Can a company whose chip architecture owns smartphones really scale up to running the cloud?
Join The Reg’s big-iron man Timothy Prickett-Morgan and fellow Reg readers for an ARM server Live Chat on Friday, 2 November at 2pm GMT, 10am Eastern, 7am Pacific, to speak your brains. You can register in the window below to follow and to join the discussion.
We’ll be talking the who, the what, the where, and the why:
- Should Intel be worried?
- What can a RISC server do that a CISC server can’t?
- Is the x86 server doomed?
- Who will use ARM servers, and where?
- Speeds, feeds, performance and big, big IRON!
COMMENTS
Re: AMD or ATI
AMD CEO Rory Read: "We're the first company to offer both 64-bit ARM and x86 server processors"
So the article's assumption is perfectly valid I'd say.
A great British company ...
Speaking as a shareholder, my vote says don't let anyone take it over.
The more shares you own, the more say you get over its future if there should ever be a bid. I consider a bid unlikely unless it stumbles really badly and starts to look vulnerable. But then, big companies with huge cash piles can get irrational, and look what happened to Autonomy!
Before emptying your brains here, please watch the set of slides presented at ARM TechCon 2012 on October 30th:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/arm-cortex-a50-series-official-slides/#5397424 .
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