Will China Grab Arm Servers?

China's data center giants have become the next big hope to give traction to Arm's server initiative.

Rick Merritt, EETimes, Dec. 01, 2016 – When Macom bought Applied Micro last week and said it would sell off its X-Gene Arm server unit, the writing was on the wall. Applied has a solid business with big U.S. data centers and in 2017 and beyond they are buying bandwidth in the form of 100-400G Ethernet - not Arm servers.

In the wake of the news I heard multiple reports Broadcom was ending Vulcan, its plan for a beefy Arm server SoC made in a FinFET process with a custom core. The risky product was expected to be cancelled ever since penny-pinching Avago bought the company. (A former Broadcom engineer told me the company also canceled plans for a set-top processor using custom Arm cores.)

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