This week, ARM announced the details of its 64-bit processor architectures, and AMD company admitted intent to use these developments in its own processor Opteron. It was considered that the commercial products with ARM architecture in the 64-bit versions will not appear until 2014.
Dell demonstrated a prototype of the server system, based on a 64-bit processor architecture ARM, developed by AppliedMicro. So far, Dell has used only 32-bit processors and Marvel Calxeda, this is the first demonstration of solutions based on 64-bit architecture ARM .
Prototypes corresponding processors already exist, they are functioning successfully. AppliedMicro promises to start supplying samples of 64-bit X-Gene in the following year, at the same time will be compatible software. Commercial shipments of processors AppliedMicro going to start towards the end of 2013. Dell is not ready to say that the servers will be produced based on these processors - while existing designs offered software developers to debug their products.