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Originally Posted by Rathji
I don't recall the specifics, to be honest, but there were some pretty good reasons why Atom never became a valid ARM competitor.
Intel's new Silvermount Atom chip, which is a complete redesign, will almost certainly change that though.
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And interestingly, evolution of the Atom isn't being driven just at the low end (tablets, phones), but at the high end - HP and others are stuffing thousands of ARM cores into blade chassis systems now to deliver massively parallel throughput at a fraction of the threads per watt that traditional X86 servers can deliver.