As Intel pushes to expand its technology into the rapidly growing mobile
device space, officials with ARM Holdings,
whose chip designs dominate the smartphone market, say they plan to take on
Intel in the server arena.
In
an interview with Bloomberg
News Dec. 13, ARM CEO
Warren East said that his company’s chip designs will help drive up the energy
efficiency of data center systems and that server makers “are actively
considering ARM architectures.”
However,
that will take time, East said, predicting that ARM
won’t start to eat into Intel’s dominant server market share until 2014 or so.
Intel currently owns more than 90 percent of the overall server market.
“We
don’t want to raise expectations that next year there are going to be a lot of ARM
servers,” he said. “Of course, there aren’t.”
For more, read the eWeek article: ARM Will Challenge Intel in Servers in 2014, CEO Says.