Calxeda is a start-up company that aims to provide ARM

ARM architecture

ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...

-based computers for the server

Server (computing)

In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...

 market. Their selling point is a claimed reduction in energy consumption as well as better cost per throughput, compared to x86-based server manufacturers such as Intel. Currently a 480-core server is in development, consisting of 120 quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPUs.

Calxeda will compete in the many-core server market against current server market leaders Intel and AMD, other recent ARM-based server vendors such as Marvell

Marvell Technology Group

Marvell is an American producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products.Founded in 1995, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. has operations worldwide and approximately 5,700 employees. Marvell’s U.S. operating subsidiary is based in Santa Clara, California and Marvell has...

 (Armada XP), and the massive multicore CPU manufacturer Tilera

Tilera

Tilera Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design. The company is currently shipping multiple processors, including the TILE64, TILEPro64, and the TILEPro36, TILE-Gx36, TILE-Gx16 and TILE-Gx9...

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The current Calxeda product offerings include the EngergyCore ECX-1000 SoC, featuring four ARMv7 Coretex-A9 cores operating at 1.1 - 1.4GHz, 32KB L1 I-cache and 32KB L1 D-cache per core, 4MB shared L2 cache, on-chip fabric switch, 1.5W per processor, 5W per server node including 4GB of DDR3 DRAM, 0.5W when idle.