The void left by the Advanced Micro Devices X86 server “sabbatical” five years ago created a massive opportunity in the server SoC space. It had to be filled with something and that something has primarily been Intel and then ARM-based server chips. ARM Holdings -based servers have been in development for years now and the ecosystem is slowly, but steadily growing. New ecosystems like ARM servers take time, but then again, it feels at times like OpenPOWER has sucked some of the oxygen out of the ARM Holdings server room. There are some larger players in the space like Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom and Qualcomm and some smaller, more focused companies who are successful in networking like Applied Micro Circuits and Cavium.

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