Famous British chip designer ARM has said at the beginning of 2015, with the development of big data, cloud computing and other industries, the commercial market has great potential in the future, by 2020, ARM plans to less than 1% from now expand the market share of around 20%.

ARM has many partners in the commercial market, although the news about the ARM processor in the commercial market has not interrupted, but has been a lack of seismic products appear, whether to prove its performance in the commercial market as well as customers expect.

AMD cooperate with ARM push the new product

Recently, the AMD launched 64 hao dragon A1100 SoC based on ARM architecture, let people can close understanding commercial chips based on ARM architecture. A1100 SoC enough shock, the ARM camp in has a great role in promoting the application of the data center.

White dragon A1100 SoC

AMD cooperation with ARM began in 2012, ARM in 2012 at the end of October launch ARMv8 architecture of ARM architecture A50 processor series products, to meet the needs of the enterprise application. And in order to make up for his experience in the enterprise market disadvantage, ARM with x86 server market run AMD cooperation for many years.

AMD accumulated quite a lot of successful experience in the field of the server, it owns the industry's leading 64 - bit microprocessor technology, and a wide range of intellectual property portfolio and OEM, ODM and ISV experience of cooperation, will promote the ARM extension, in the field of data center to meet specific needs in the field of data center. The AMD to launch its first white dragon A1100 SoC ARM architecture, will certainly to speed up the ARM architecture in the application of the data center.

For development of data center network, storage, etc

Compared to the ARM's other partners in the commercial market, AMD launched the 64 hao dragon A1100 SoC undoubtedly led to a more important influence in the commercial market, ARM before commercial been questioned the hardware and software problems such as ecology, the commercial market experience after on AMD got very good solve.

AMD white dragon A1100 is the first piece on SoC system solutions, the three product, AMD enterprise solution of product management and marketing director Colin Cureton said: "A1170 is mainly applied to web services, is for the application of high performance. For A1150 mainly storage and network applications, to provide cost-effective solutions to our customers. A1120 mainly for software development and application of some low performance."

The target market

First we see A1100 in terms of network, many core 64 ARM equipped with double 10 ge Ethernet controller, SoC is equivalent to multicore ARM processor unit and I/O integrated together, help network clients develop the right solution.

In terms of storage, A1100 has 14 port SATA3, integrated balance of I/O, memory, and large data set calculation function. In WEB services, low energy consumption of the architecture A57 kernel to high dense specifications meet the needs of the workload to expand.

Software development is mainly aimed at the development of data centers, AMD with partners together to create development platform, development of relevant software system for data center. SoftIron is AMD's partner, the two sides to jointly develop the Overdrive3000, enterprise-level ARM 64 system developers.

Software partners

At the same time, AMD also with other hardware partners in a new generation of technology made real progress. AMD market development manager Michael Detwiler said: "AMD with partners to build low-cost enterprise ARM platform. At the same time AMD tightly cooperation with major software partners, optimize operating system and application of Red Hat and SUSE Linux enterprise solutions, in addition they also have other applications."

Visible, AMD's new 64 hao dragon A1100 SoC based on ARM architecture, in terms of performance and efficiency to achieve the perfect balance, to meet the demand of increasingly diversified workload. "

And the perfect complementary x86 AMD product line

When it comes to data center commercial processors, we have to mention x86 architecture chip, as once in a place of AMD x86 commercial market, how to define the new product, he compete with x86 architecture processor is relationship?

In fact, the purpose of the server on the ecological system based on ARM is not competitive relationship with the their x86 architecture, new AMR chip mainly is to meet with cloud computing and web server providers in the network, storage, and the demand of software development. Between ARM and x86 servers, for now, there is no exclusive, but a complementary relationship, rather than the competition.

AMD enterprise solution of product management and marketing director Colin Cureton is also think so, he said: "the ARM and x86 architecture chip is coexist, this would allow us to provide customers with the best solutions to meet the needs of customers. For x86, the ARM is another solution, the future will also have high performance x86 processors AMD and high-performance ARM SoC, we will make the difference between the two."

ARM processor is introduced based on the end user to choose, to provide users with different solutions. Users are concerned about the overall prices of server system, the development cycle and the innovation cycle. So we introduce the purpose of the ARM processor is not to compare with friendly merchants, but to satisfy the end user's choice, to provide customers with diversified solutions.

In general, AMD we are looking forward to the new product is very worth it!