ARM-Based Server Chip Expected to Launch

VP of Marketing, Rock Yang of relatively unknown Chinese ARM licensee Nufront has hinted to a major announcement by the company. The former APAC Mobile Computing Business Manager at ARM, reports IT Pro Portal, has implied the release of a server optimized chip. Most likely a new version of the NuSmart 2816, its flagship processor, will be introduced by August 2011 and will offer improved processor speeds (up to 2GHz) as well as support for server-friendly technologies like GbE as well as support for ECC memory.

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Nufront VP of Marketing hints at August release of optimized server chip.

"Yang would not say whether or who Nufront's clients are but said that they were talking to a number of big OEMs/ODMs to use the 2816, which is a dual core Cortex A9 CPU coupled with a dual core Mali 400 GPU. Expect to hear much more about this outfit over the next few months."

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