Please be true.
Those slackers are a giant money sink.
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Server was going to be great. The business was not supposed to be profitable until 2020. This was known The server team made great strides and pulled the schedule by 1 year. There is a big customer already for the current chip looking to order like 150K chips. The budget was around 400mil per year. The BCOM disaster made the management promise 1Bil cost savings. Unfortunately the server was a casualty to reach the goal. Anyone who was in the know of the next chip knows what the team has achieved. The chips were designed from scratch and the firmware was written from scratch. Tools were developed to support it. 3rd generation chip is all set to go, which was a phenomenal design. All in about 5 years. Too bad, poor leadership doomed the division.
Hope someone purchases them and does some good with them. QCOM shot themselves with this. Shame!
Spinoffs are usually bad business packaged up and sold off to unknowing or uncaring individuals. If server was so great they wouldn’t be tryin to shut it down or sell it.
Think logically engineering types.
The Amberwing chip from Q, blows both ThunderX2 and Ampere chip in Power/Performance scale. And for the upcoming Chip, there will be no one matching that power/performance rating.
Big US company is in the final stage of their verification and customers for next chip eagerly waiting to get out of Intel hegemony.
Too bad that SM and the team looked for short term profits over big time profits from 2019/2020
"Both Broadcom & AppliedMicro (later M/A-Com) tried to find buyers for their ARM-server groups but couldn't."
actually both got bought.
Broadcom Vulcan chip is now Cavium ThunderX2, and IP and team was acquired.
Applied Micro IP and team was sold to Macom which is now owned by Ampere with big bucks from Carlyle group. Ampere led by ex President of Intel.
Ugly plan for server.
Anything is possible but they will be hard-pressed to find a buyer.
Both Broadcom & AppliedMicro (later M/A-Com) tried to find buyers for their ARM-server groups but couldn't.
A Chinese buyer might have been a possibility, but with Trump clamping down on foreign firms buying US technology, that will also be harder.
Any idea who are the potential buyers for the division?
Group has many buyers, QCOM waiting for best offer and then they’re off to probably much greener pastures than the rest of us
It will be announced sometime next month but it's happening.
Getting sold off.
"It looks like a major ARM server vendor is getting out of the custom core market. Word has reached SemiAccurate about the shuttering of the project but many details are still hazy." - Semiaccurate
They don't even know who "a major vendor" is?
Seems more like fishing (for news) than reporting...
Could be
https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/04/24/major-custom-arm-server-core-project-canceled/
According to this link someone cancelled their server project.
RIP