On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:10 AM, prasannatsmkumar <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Why not go for ARM? ARM servers started appearing. It is cheap and consumes
> less energy than Intel and AMD boards (I don't have any numbers to show
> it). If people are going to run Linux servers they have a set of processors
> to choose from. Intel and AMD processors are market dominant but it does
> not mean ARM cannot be used. This is just my opinion.
>
> True. But still very early stages. ARM was traditionally positioned as
power saving as opposed to performance leading it to be dominant in
mobiles/ tablets etc. I reckon it will a while before these become
commonplace enough to be cheap owing to high volumes.

-- Mohan Sundaram
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