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Worldwide, data centers consume about 30 billion watts of electricity, the approximate output of 30 nuclear power plants annually. In fact, data centers today consume about 2% of the world's electricity production, and electricity consumption by data centers worldwide increased 7% in 2013 compared to 2012.During that time, energy consumption growth by data centers in several emerging economies was substantial, with the Middle East and Africa usage increasing 17.5% and Latin America increasing 15.1%. In more mature markets, like the U.S. and Canada, data center owners and operators have faced increasing costs and in certain states the threat of energy consumption-related taxation.

If the global cloud computing infrastructure, or “the cloud,” were a country, it would have the fifth largest electricity demand in the world, behind the U.S., China, Russia and Japan.Motivated by operating costs, land use restrictions, and environmental concerns, data center operators are keenly aware of the need to reduce power consumption while increasing hardware density and, at the same time, maintain or improve the user experience. AppliedMicro believes these trends create opportunities for high-performance, high-density, lower TCO cloud infrastructure and data center solutions.

The Solution: Scale-Out Solutions with AppliedMicro X-Gene Technology

X-Gene microprocessors are in production today and are being shipped on platforms developed by leading enterprise OEM and ODMs and adopted by leading IT organizations.

The maturity of a comprehensive ARM software ecosystem has enabled volume deployments we are seeing today.

X-Gene microprocessors provide power-efficient 64-bit enterprise class performance and reliability via a high performance custom ARM core microarchitecture coupled with an integrated switch fabric and high-speed networking capabilities.

These processor solutions are optimized to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for scale out data center compute and storage platforms that serve as the foundation for “the Cloud.

New, innovative system architectures continue to emerge using X-Gene processor technology to drive Cloud workloads.