Chip maker Marvell has notched up its third public design win for an ARM server, this one at Baidu, one of the two big search engine giants in China. Avi Liebermensch, manager of server products at the maker of ARM processors and other kinds of chips, tells El Reg that the Baidu server is based on the company's Armada XP …

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Wednesday 20th February 2013 21:42 GMT Tim Brown 1

Confusing headline?

"Forges" implies fakes... but that doesn't seem to be the case?

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1. Wednesday 20th February 2013 21:51 GMT Matt Bucknall
  
  Re: Confusing headline?
  
  Forge:
  
  verb (used with object)
  
  1. to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
  
  2. to form or make, especially by concentrated effort: to forge a friendship through mutual trust.
  
  3. to imitate (handwriting, a signature, etc.) fraudulently; fabricate a forgery.
  
  (source: Dictionary.com:)
  
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 22:49 GMT Anonymous Coward

Hmmm...

I'm thinking one of these units would make quite a nice home media server.

;o)

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Wednesday 20th February 2013 23:48 GMT bazza

ARM Trickle

Hmmmm, Intel should be getting worried. The trickle of ARM based servers is small at the moment, but if users start saying that they're great then it could easily become a flood.

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1. Thursday 21st February 2013 00:55 GMT asdf
  
  Re: ARM Trickle
  
  It has been pretty amazing to see how fast the focus in so many segments has went from raw overall performance to performance per watt. Intel consistently has stayed a generation ahead of everyone else fabrication wise (but not low power design wise obviously) so they do still have that. Still they may be forced to rejoin the ARM market to stay relevant eventually and boy wouldn't that be piss on their Wheaties.
  
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  1. Thursday 21st February 2013 06:33 GMT bazza
    
    Re: ARM Trickle
    
    @asdf
    
    Agreed. I don't know why Intel seemingly refuse to do it. If they did an ARM SOC it could easily be the best one on the market; their silicon processing prowess would be a big advantage.
    
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    1. Thursday 21st February 2013 06:40 GMT 6 inches long, handle.
      
      Re: ARM Trickle
      
      @bazza
      
      Intel will not do ARM SoC, but they will do MIPS SoC. The fight will be between ARM and Imagination, with Intel behind the scene directing Imagination to take on ARM+Mali with their MIPS+SGX combo.
      
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