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Interesting news. Apparently, boards from both sides have approved the deal.
Related to this news, I recently saw this blog post from CloudFlare (ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison) which is the first good benchmark I have seen of Qualcomm's Centriq server chip. And it really beat the Intel hardware it was compared to (half the power for higher performance on most tests). CloudFlare has decided to buy Centriq servers and is adding them to their datacenters (they say it in the comments section).
I immediatelly thought about Cavium's ThunderX2 which is supposed to be even more interesting because it has much more IO and is dual socket. Cray and HPE are onboard the ThunderX2 already. However, for some reason there is no benchmark for ThunderX2 online (if you know any please let me know). CloudFlare seems to have tested both platforms and they chose Centriq.
Anyhow, I believe ARM server chips are taking off big time and Cavium's ThunderX2 is probably why Marvell wants Cavium. The makers of the two hottest ARM server chips - Qualcomm and Cavium - have been targetted for acquisition in the last month. Coincidence?
Interesting news. Apparently, boards from both sides have approved the deal.
Related to this news, I recently saw this blog post from CloudFlare (ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison) which is the first good benchmark I have seen of Qualcomm's Centriq server chip. And it really beat the Intel hardware it was compared to (half the power for higher performance on most tests). CloudFlare has decided to buy Centriq servers and is adding them to their datacenters (they say it in the comments section).
I immediatelly thought about Cavium's ThunderX2 which is supposed to be even more interesting because it has much more IO and is dual socket. Cray and HPE are onboard the ThunderX2 already. However, for some reason there is no benchmark for ThunderX2 online (if you know any please let me know). CloudFlare seems to have tested both platforms and they chose Centriq.
Anyhow, I believe ARM server chips are taking off big time and Cavium's ThunderX2 is probably why Marvell wants Cavium. The makers of the two hottest ARM server chips - Qualcomm and Cavium - have been targetted for acquisition in the last month. Coincidence?