Qualcomm is going to ARM chips for servers, the company confirmed. This is the processorgigant to compete with Intel and AMD, which are still in the market for server chips dominate.
“It’s going to take a while before we this business have built up, but we think that the interesting opportunities in the future,” said Qualcomm ceo Steve Mollenkopf at a meeting of analysts in New York. That writes The Wall Street Journal. Details about the chips and release dates gave the ceo. Qualcomm is by far the market leader in the market for ARM chips for smartphones.
By 2020 the servermarkt for a turnover of 15 billion dollars, converted to 12 billion euros, can ensure, for example, Mollenkopf the analysts. Among others, Facebook would be interested in the chips are shown. Qualcomm showed a video in which the chief of the infrastructuurdivisie of Facebook said that ARM-based servers from Qualcomm the social network again will be looking to build up his infrastructure.
Qualcomm is not the only party that is on ARM-serverchips point. Among other AMD develop such chips, in addition to x86-serverschips, and therefor took the chipbedrijf SeaMicro. The market for cheap and economical serverchips as a growth market given the advent of 64bit ARM chips, the development momentum. Monday, Cray is known to have an interest in the chips for use in supercomputers.
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