ARMs in the Clouds

ARMs in the Clouds
by Paul McLellan on 02-07-2013 at 7:10 pm

The most interesting session at the Linley Tech Data Center Conference last week was the last one, on Designing Power Efficient Servers. What this was really about was whether ARM would have any success in the server market and what Intel’s response might be.

Datacenters are now very focused on power efficiency and many track… Read More


Google Datacenter

Google Datacenter
by Paul McLellan on 10-22-2012 at 5:42 pm

In my blog about Intel’s latest results I linked to an interesting article in Wired about Google’s datacenters.

I happened to be browsing some websites in the Netherlands (actually I don’t speak a word of Dutch, a Dutch friend pointed it out to me) and there is an article showing how the pictures that accompany… Read More


Intel Quarterly Report: Needs to Do Better

Intel Quarterly Report: Needs to Do Better
by Paul McLellan on 10-19-2012 at 11:51 am

Intel announced its quarterly results a couple of days ago. They had previously downgraded 3rd quarter sales estimates but they managed to beat the downgraded numbers. If you look at the transcript of the call (I didn’t listen live) you’ll see very little mention of mobile and Atom. This is bad news for Intel. Its core… Read More