How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing

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Re: How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing

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Post by makomk » Tue, Dec 01, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #38

dogma1138 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OP was talking about mobile not server SOC's but fine.... The server SOC's also have a power consumption several times greater. So if that's what you want lets look at the Xeon-D performance wise they are very competitive to Intel's discrete CPU's, and beat the AppliedMicro X-Gene 2.4 quite harshly... http://www.anandtech.com/show/9185/intel-xeon-d-review-perfo...

The X-Gene 1 was a development platform designed to work out the software bugs (and it's also obsolete now, since it was first produced in 40nm in 2013). Obviously if you compare latest Intel SoC with some 2+ year old dev-kit, the latest Intel looks great! They should compare Xeon with Cavium ThunderX, X-Gene 2/3, AMD Seattle, Qualcomm's latest server SoC or the HiSilicon D0x. http://www.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploa…

It's not just the latest Intel SoC, it's a Xeon on a bleeding-edge process node with cutthroat pricing, both of which are rather uncommon for Xeons. It's clear that ARM has got Intel spooked in the low-end server arena.

Re: How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing

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Post by leonroy » Wed, Dec 02, 2015, 2:40 PM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #18

leonroy wrote: post #9

Another related British company which has become very successful without anyone noticing is Imagination Technologies (formerly Videologic). They had a successful graphics card business during the 90s but with the introduction of 3D graphics accelerators their product (PowerVR) whilst semi-successful began to struggle against 3dfx and nVidia's TNT and Geforce range of graphics cards. Eventually they pulled out of the…

I wouldn't call Imagination Technologies a successful company their IP is being shipped in billion of SOC's but they yearly revenue is below 200M and they operate at break even or a loss. IT seems to be a case study of a company which it's IP is a corner stone in many consumer devices but some how never managed to capitalize on it. ARM is a very good example of how to spin off your IP and make it successful even when…

I had no idea they made so little money based upon their (apparently) very unique tile rendering graphics technology.

Their CEO and sales guys clearly aren't doing as good a job as their engineering department!

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