Cavium Debuts 48 Core ARM Processor
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Huge news in ARM server land, Cavium has announced their 48 core ARM v8 processor, That is a lot of horsepower in a little chip. Those are real cores, not thread engines. That's more cores than any AMD64 architecture chip has today whether genuine AMD or Intel made. Cavium has also made this new ARM processor support dual sockets. So in a small, dual process, low power server you could have 96 true cores! This is a major ARM breakthrough.
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Will the ARM architecture ever be viable in the SMB market? I know it is/will be great for the more flexible enterprise markets.
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It is potentially viable today. Chromebooks and Chromeboxes are already using it. Mobile devices already use it. If you are okay with not running Windows or Mac desktops, you can run most Linux or BSD desktop configurations on it now. So end user computing is already pretty much there.
If you do any non-Windows server work, ARM is already very viable for SMB servers. Web and application servers, databases, LDAP, etc. all will work very well there.
