Prices are for the boards including the SoCs.
Intel AVOTON C2758 board price at Newegg = $340
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...tm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=afc-Skimlinks
SuperMicro XEON-D 1520 board price at Newegg = $490
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182973
There are no boards yet, but here is a link for a ready 1U rack server.
http://softiron.co.uk/products/
No data center customer buying in reasonably large quantities will pay anything close to this.
No data center customer buying in reasonably large quantities will pay anything close to this.
Not available yet.
Those prices are for retail, and in that matter no data center customer will pay $300-400 for the A1100 as well.
Nobody here said there was availability of A1100 boards in the first place. And frankly i dont expect wide availability of a product purely aiming developers only in that stage.
Then perhaps should stop comparing imaginary prices.
So if the C2750($171) Server boards are at $350, A1100 should be at $300-400 price range.AMD told us that the initial price of the A1170 SoC will be $150. That is the same price of the Atom C2730 (eight cores at 1.7 GHz
So the $300-400 price point is close enough.Thanks to the Linaro "96boards enterprise edition", a 300-400$ SoC + board should be available soon and make it much cheaper to build software for the 64 bit ARM ecosystem.
Qualcomm Shows How Intel Could Lose The Data Center
Summary:
* Qualcomm's server joint venture in China lends considerable credibility to its ARM server initiative.
* The joint venture may serve as a model for ARM adoption by other large scale cloud service providers such as Amazon and Google.
* The cloud providers are best-positioned to overcome the key stumbling block to ARM server adoption: software.
Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) announced yesterday a joint venture with the Chinese provincial government of Guizhou to build a data center based on ARM server technology. Guizhou Province will build a cluster of green data centers using more than 2.5 million servers with chips based on Qualcomm's ARM server processors. The joint venture will also focus on research and development of server chipsets for sale throughout China.
[...]
When Qualcomm first announced its Server Development Platform back in October 2015, I was very skeptical that it would make any inroads in the Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) dominated server business. Servers have become commoditized, and Intel dominates this commodity market.
Following Intel's 2015 Q4 earnings report, I began to wonder if Intel is really as secure in the data center as it seems. Intel appears to have given up on smartphones and lightweight tablets, unable to compete with ARM processors on cost and performance.
Intel's failure in mobile is not merely a failure of a technology (x86 processors) but a failure of a business model.
[...]
The custom SOC paradigm offers technical and business advantages. The key technical advantage is that mobile device makers can optimize the SOC design for the mobile device and potentially for the operating system (and vice versa), in the case of Apple. The business advantage is the classic one of vertical integration: profit that might have gone to the commodity processor vendor is retained within the mobile device company.
In addition to the structural advantages of the new paradigm, there appears to be a fundamental cost advantage for ARM processors that Intel could never overcome, as long as the mobile device makers could pursue the new paradigm at sufficient scale.
The custom SOC paradigm offers a template for adoption of ARM servers in the data center.
So perhave qcom is giving arm cores away for free to get access to the Chinese mobile market ?Some news on Qualcomm's ARM server initiative, similar to AMD's:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3816316-qualcomm-shows-intel-lose-data-center
This got me looking at avoton boards again dammit. NE has the asrock quadcore on sale for about $270 after $100 off instant code.
What is the performance of the memory controller and of the SATA controller? Last time I checked AMD had subpar implementations of both logics. Did they fix it?
"Unfortunately the chipset only supports two SATA 6 gpbs connectors "
So 2 SATA3 hard drives is better than 4 or more, is your opinion of "Better"?
What is the performance of the memory controller and of the SATA controller? Last time I checked AMD had subpar implementations of both logics. Did they fix it?
Don't do it! Wait for Denverton!