Facebook covets core-heavy ARM SoCs
Rick Merritt, EETimes
1/18/2013 2:09 PM EST
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – At the same event where Facebook managers opened the door for ARM server SoCs in the data center, they also made it clear that today’s chips fall short of what they seek, In addition, NAND flash vendors need to refocus their plans to fill exploding storage needs in the data center, they said.
In keynotes and interviews at the Open Compute Summit, Facebook executives said they want server SoCs that pack lots of cores and not much else.
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