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Socionext Inc., Linaro and GIGABYTE have jointly built a software development environment that complies with Linaro's 96Boards open hardware specification. Under the collaboration, GIGABYTE manufactures the 96Boards-compliant hardware with Socionext's SC2A11 processor, and Linaro provides support through its 96Boards community. The companies expect the new development environment to help the expansion of ARM®-based software in a broad range of applications including IoT gateway, edge computing and servers. The environment will become available to customers starting December 2017.
The rapid growth of IoT (Internet of Things) has led to an increasing demand for processing large amounts of data at high speed, in each phase, from data collection at gateways to edge computing to large-scale cloud servers in data centers. With these applications, the ARM architecture becomes a promising option for improving energy efficiency and reducing costs. In order to address these requirements, Linaro, GIGABYTE and Socionext have built an environment with a power-efficient processor that enables easy development of highly-versatile software using the ARM-native instruction set.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @05:36PM (6 children)
All that is needed for both desktop and server usage *TODAY* is a few physical PCIe slots of x8 to 16, with at least 2-4 lanes of I/O per slot, and at least 2 banks of socketed memory.
Is this *REALLY* too hard for an arm manufacturer to market TODAY? I mean there used to dozens to hundreds of PC manufacturers with at least 6-8 motherboard chipset manufacturers. There is no reason for us to not already have general purpose ARM/MIPS/etc boards, even in lower production quantities. A few hundred thousand sold should be able to cover the costs, and without breaking the 200-300 dollar system cost barrier.
But nobody seems willing to take that first risk and do it. It is either IOT boards, Development Boards, or x86 boards. But nothing out of the ordinary without an industrial/developer market markup.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @05:54PM (3 children)
You can get arm chromebooks [whatisop.com] and server boards. [cavium.com]
They're simply not yet great desktop or workstation replacements.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @07:06PM (2 children)
What's missing from ARM boards to make them great/good desktop or workstation replacements?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @07:19PM
For one, NEON [arm.com] wasn't IEEE754 [wikipedia.org] compliant until fairly recently.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday October 09 2017, @02:07AM
Demand.
1. No one is rushing out to buy new PC's.
2. Arm is useless on the desktop for business/education/industrial/medical/big entities/etc. as their software ecosystem has been cemented to Wintel for nearly three decades. Sure, people can port, emulators and so forth. But we all know what inertia means. So. Yea. Not gonna happen any time soon.
The only way that demand can shift is if everyone moves to the magical cloud of unpredictability and the PC is just a dumb terminal running a web browser.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday October 08 2017, @07:38PM
Here's Bero's ARM desktop [youtube.com] using a Marvell MACCHIATObin [solid-run.com] with a nice graphics card over a 4x->16x pci-e riser, mainline linux (libre I think) using a generic distro image and 16gb ram.
I haven't seen any benchmarks as of yet but I'm expecting the price-to-performance to be about twice as bad as an i3 or 3 times an Atom mini-pc.
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @08:11PM
well considering that the goal is to pull data from consumers and then mine it to track them and display ads, I am not sure why anyone would remotely care about making a server for people to buy.
If that happened, then the data on that persons server is not available and shareholder profit would go down while letting the terrorists win. People that go dark and people born that way are evil and shoot people.
why do you hate america