Qualcomm unleashes 48-core 10nm FinFET ARM server chips

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Qualcomm Centriq 2400 engineering samples have been made available to key partners.

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[Jowsey]

I'll be honest, when I first saw the bottom picture I thought "Wow, thats a huge chip..."'

I didn't sleep very much last night and that's the excuse I'm sticking to!

[DanceswithUnix]

Seems a bit of a content free press release that.

48 cores, usually that would be for a VM farm which throws up lots of questions, like how much RAM can you plug in, virtualisation support.

Can't see it turning up on a Raspberry Pi clone any time soon though, so I'm probably out.

[Kato-2]

Aren't Arm servers still a niche thing, many have tried before and not been able to make a dent, way too much software reliant on x86 to make it worthwhile.

[shaithis]

Samsung will probably put 2 of them in the Galaxy S9....

[DanceswithUnix]

Aren't Arm servers still a niche thing, many have tried before and not been able to make a dent, way too much software reliant on x86 to make it worthwhile.

It hasn't really been tried in a big way, HP Moonshot blades are the only things that really spring to mind.

There really isn't a reliance on x86 in the data center though, most software is Linux so already there for ARM, the best hardware you can buy is IBM with a Power CPU.

[scaryjim]

I'll be honest, when I first saw the bottom picture I thought "Wow, thats a huge chip..."' ...

Don't worry, it wasn't just you

[darcotech]

Looks great for VM host, just the question is how much it will cost, how much RAM can we attach to and other things.
But I think it will be reserved for OEMs and there will be no motherboard for DIY to buy.