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AMD thinks the future of the data center lies in the ARM processor architecture, and it's betting that servers based on 64-bit ARMv8 will be humming in racks near you sooner than you expect. To prove it, AMD's Leendert van Doorn took to the stage at Oracle's JavaOne conference in San Francisco to demo two ARM Cortex A57–based …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Yippeee.....

    ..new attack vectors ahoy!

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Yippeee.....

      van Doorn is right up there with De'ath among names that scream super villain rather than 'safe pair of hands'

      If Dr. van Doorn and Dr. De'ath ever collaborate on a cybernetics paper we'll know that Marvel's Avengers are going to swoop in just in time to save a small part of New York from certain doorn.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    "They were loaded with two different Linux distros – Red Hat and OpenSuse"

    There is now a Red Hat (as opposed to Fedora) for ARM? They must be keeping it very secret, because Google finds no references to such a thing, only 3rd party EL ports.

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    1. dmcq
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      Perhaps you mistyped your Google enquiry

      Jul 30, 2014

      Red Hat Launches ARM Partner Early Access Program for Partner Ecosystem

      http://investors.redhat.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=863004

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Everything mentioned on that page seems to be a regurgitation of things that have been happening over the last couple of years, and all of that has been based on Fedora, rather than EL. I don't see any indication of that having changed.

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  4. YARR
    WTF?

    Zen?

    "AMD thinks the future of the data center lies in the ARM processor architecture"

    then at what market is the next generation x86 Zen core targetted? In the past new AMD x86 cores were first released as high performance Opterons.

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    1. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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      Re: Zen?

      Just as the article says: ARM + specialised silicon, which in some workloads will be x86.

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  5. rav

    Linux market penetration

    Linux Server market penetration is less than 2%. About what AMD's server market share is.

    To get ARM accepted in the data center, Linux needs to be accepted just a tad more broadly than it is.

    That is why Microsoft said NO Windows for ARM.

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    1. James Anderson
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      Re: Linux market penetration

      Its actually about 12% for all servers, and 30% for web facing servers.

      Whats more interesting is that its about 50% for new systems, Windows Solaris etc. is fast becoming legacy.

      It should also be noted that companies like Google source there own hardware and all that kit in their massive data centers do not show as "server market share".

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