According to ARM company, by 2020 about a quarter of the server market will be occupied by ARM architecture. Servers on ARM-compatible processors from AMD and a number of other well-known developers, including Huawei and Qualcomm. Server ARM-compatible NAS platforms and network solutions promote company Cavium, Texas Instruments and Broadcom.
The first platform Applied X-Gene was presented three years ago in the form of 8-core 40-nm single-chip solutions. Only in the third quarter of 2015, according to the company, SoC Applied X-Gene set to more than 10,000 servers. The company also sends samples of 28-nm and 16-8 core SoC X-Gene 2. According to some estimates, SoC X-Gene 2 is able to demonstrate the performance at the level of 40% of the features of certain Intel Xeon E5 processor models. Prior to that, a direct competitor to the server platform Applied Micro ARM processors are Intel Atom.
Featured at the conference 16 nm FinFET SoC X-Gene 3 promise to come even closer to the capabilities of Intel-line Xeon E5. The developers claim the linear scalability of the system, as opposed to hard 2- or 4-processor configurations of Intel for this product category.
Each assembly X-Gene 3 carries 32 cores at up to 3 GHz. in the assembly includes a controller with a PCI Express 3.0 42 lines. Also, the assembly includes an eight-channel controller DDR4 (with support for DDR4-2667). One node on X-Gene 3 may be up to 256 core (SoC 16) to the addressable memory 2 TB. Certainly, the decision on the ARM go beyond microserver.