Comment: It is beset with difficulties that ARM enters the server field

Future Horizons analyst Mike Bryant showed a few days ago, even the market of next year low power consumption server would grow significantly, but will be the world of Intel processor even AMD, ARM production will not increase by a large margin temporarily.

In the prediction of Future Horizons, Bryant shows, the valley song has 1 million servers, Amazon River Microsoft exceeds 250,000, IBM, eBay, Youtube, BBC and network game company,etc. often have more than 50000 servers. And the power consumption expenditure of these machines increases, in order to prevent the excessive heating of the server, need a large number of air conditioners, and this will further increase the power consumption.

At present, the demand for server of new developing economy is still increasing continuously, Kobe says, the valley song is expected to increase the servers of 25% every year, but all on the framework of Intel, they are unable to lose one’s own traditional software after all, can’t support a plurality of software versions either. “It will be the year of low power consumption server in 2011. These new low power consumption servers will use Intel’s framework, is similar to Java and Python and support the versionable cross platform to be operated, but to most IT departments, the procedure of the cross platform remains the very complicated one. ”

He adds, lacking 64 bit processors will prevent ARM from entering this market too, ” most servers need 64 pure operating systems, only if Intel framework processor will usually reduce energy consumption by reducing the processor figure, this is not obviously what a market hopes. ”

However, as to the thing that the good news of the server manufacturer is, Intel will possibly reduce 64 to the strong processor power consumption, “hope to see a more efficient Intel is to strong or AMD processor. ” Bryant shows.