Intel vs ARM 64 bit server processor race: ARM tyre punctured in test-drive

With the growth of cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT), there are billions of more computers or digital devices in need of access to servers for the data as well as computing off-load. There are around four types of servers, which are tower server, rack server, blade server and micro server. Intel is a long-time very-tall leader in the server processor chip market, which has a huge market share compared the second biggest server chip vendor AMD. The micro server as the name suggests small in size and form factor and are designed to consume less power. In the category of micro servers, 64-bit ARM processor cores are employed now to design server processor chips. Like any other ARM processor core the server processor cores from ARM are designed to consume less power. With this trend of availability of ARM 64 bit processor core for servers, Intel is now facing a competition from around half a dozen of chip companies who are designing server chips based on ARM 64-bit processor core. The 64-bit ARM processor cores compete with Intel's server processor chips mainly on the power consumption and the size. This is turning out to be interesting race. It's like Intel versus group of ARM based server chip vendors. In this there is also a startup Calexda found to design exclusively server chips based on ARM 64 bit arch. The latest news as per the some of the ne...