Qualcomm readies up 48-core Centriq 2400 ARM server chip
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Maybe 2017 will be the year that ARM servers finally become a thing. After demoing a 24-core server chip a little more than a year ago, Qualcomm's Datacenter Technologies subsidiary has announced the Centriq 2400 CPU. This new chip is a 48-core ARMv8 processor based on a new in-house CPU core design called Falkor, and it's compliant with ARM's Server Base System Architecture specification. Earlier in the week, Qualcomm showed off the new hardware running "a typical datacenter application" comprising Linux with Java and Apache Spark.
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