ARM chips already power most of the world's mobile devices and an increasing number of server products, which will include those from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) come next year.
AMD today announced a public strategy and roadmap for its forthcoming server products, which will include the company's first ARM-based processor in 2014.
Known as "Seattle," AMD aims to deliver the "industry's premier ARM server CPU," based on the ARM Cortex-A57 core, with two to four times the performance of its recent Opteron X-Series.
The first 64-bit Seattle chips are expected to run eight cores at 2GHz or higher with support for 128GB DRAM, with a 16-core version to follow.
ARMed for future
AMD expects sample quantities of its Seattle chips to arrive in the first quarter of 2014, with full-scale production kicking off by the second half of the year.
"AMD led the world in the transition to multicore processors and 64-bit computing, and we intend to do it again," remarked Andrew Feldman, general manager of AMD's Server Business Unit.
According to Mercury Research estimates, Intel currently holds 95.7 percent of the server microprocessor market as of the end of 2012, a number AMD hopes to chip away at in the years to come, starting with Seattle.
AMD's roadmap also includes a x86-based processor code-named "Berlin" and "Wars aw," an enterprise server CPU coming in the first quarter of next year.
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