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Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:14AM from the new-tools dept.

angry tapir writes "Calxeda revealed initial details about its first ARM-based server chip, designed to let companies build low-power servers with up to 480 cores. The Calxeda chip is built on a quad-core ARM processor, and low-power servers could have 120 ARM processing nodes in a 2U box. The chips will be based on ARM's Cortex-A9 processor architecture."

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Re:is it worth it? (Score:3, Insightful)

by swalve ( 1980968 ) writes: on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:43AM (#35477442)

Its low power in that the cores (I assume) can be shut down that aren't being used. Like a switchmode power supply versus a linear one. So you are always using the least amount of power possible.

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