Despite the enthusiasm of a number of supporters of ARM architecture , the immediate future for serious computing platforms solutions with support teams ARMv8 is still in the fog. For example, Qualcomm company this week, shared the joy of the early production models 48-core 10-nanometer server processors at ARM. Broadcom company quietly closed the project on the development of ARM-compatible 64-core processor's own version, code-named Vulcan.
According to informed sources online resource The Register, the developers of the project Broadcom "Vulcan" moved on to other projects, or left the company. Broadcom spokesman declined to comment on the project situation. An indirect confirmation of folding design is the fact that on the Broadcom website removed all references to the project, including the erased archives of press releases .
For the first time on the development of server processor on ARM architecture (ARMv8) company Broadcom announced in 2013. It was supposed to be a 3-GHz 16-nanometer processor with a superscalar architecture and support extraordinary performance teams. Samples of solutions out three times: in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In the spring of this year, the company Broadcom for $ 37 billion went into the hands of Avago. The new top management seems, consider the development of server versions processors with ARM architecture, a waste of money.