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ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-tools dept.

angry tapir writes "Calxeda revealed initial details about its first ARM-based server chip, designed to let companies build low-power servers with up to 480 cores. The Calxeda chip is built on a quad-core ARM processor, and low-power servers could have 120 ARM processing nodes in a 2U box. The chips will be based on ARM's Cortex-A9 processor architecture."

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  1. Re:is it worth it? by swalve · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its low power in that the cores (I assume) can be shut down that aren't being used. Like a switchmode power supply versus a linear one. So you are always using the least amount of power possible.