ZTSystems, in November 2010 launched a 1U Data Center Arm server based on Cortex-A9 cores (32-bit) which was supposed to be energy efficient and a denser solution compared to Intel Servers. #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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Then came Calxeda with their version of 32-bit Arm servers i.e. the EnergyCore-ECX-1000 which did not see adoption and Calxeda eventually went defunct in 2013.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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The first 64-bit Arm design i.e. the ARMv8-A was introduced in 2011  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory 

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In 2011 AppliedMicro launched the  X-Gene 1 processor followed by X-Gene 2 in 2014.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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Samsung, Cavium (now @marvellsemi) and AMD came up with their versions of Arm processors which tried to penetrate the server market but did not generate tangible interest among the end-users.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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2016, Avago gave up on @Broadcom's plans to develop a first class Arm server, Cavium jumped in, got Vulcan IP & funded the Vulcan project, re-christened as ThunderX2 now, ‘Marvell ThunderX2’.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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In 2017, a brand new company, @AmpereComputing bought the X-Gene assets and re-introduced the X-Gene processor as the Ampere eMAG processor.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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In 2017, @Qualcomm launched Centriq CPU based on Falkor Architecture only to abandon it by 2018.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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@awscloud announced bare-metal offerinings for EC2 A1 instances powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors in 2018.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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Major milestone was the Vanguard Astra Arm based supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories @SandiaLabs powered by DoE, Cavium and @HPE_HPC. #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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This is the first Arm based supercomputer to make the  @top500supercomp list at 156th position as of June 2019 and 198th rank in the November 2019 rankings.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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@nvidia announced CUDA support for Arm - ISC19 (2019) & backed it up with a major announcement of introducing a reference design to enable organizations to build GPU-accelerated Arm based servers  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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@FujitsuHPC launched it's 7-nm ARMv8.2-A A64X CPU in 2019 and @HPE_Cray is betting big on it.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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In 2020, @awscloud announced New Amazon EC2, M6g, C6g, and R6g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2.  #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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@nuvia_inc founded by ex @Apple CPU leadership started operations in 2019 to be a World Class high performing CPU was bought by @Qualcomm in 2021. #ArmServers #Arm #RandomComputerHistory

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