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Solving a Global Problem:

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.

X-Gene – The Solution:

X-Gene provides enterprise class ARM 64-bit high performance custom processor cores, coupled with switch fabric and high-speed networking capabilities that AppliedMicro believes will deliver substantially lower power consumption and substantial TCO savings.

Manufacturing of production units began in March 2014, and the fulfillment of early purchase orders is expected in the summer of 2014. AppliedMicro’s leadership and first-to-market advantage is demonstrated in its execution, product roadmap, and ability to deliver.

X-Gene is ideally suited for mainstream cloud workloads. The ecosystem is ready and the time is now.

Hear AppliedMicro executives and partners discuss how to accelerate development of high performance, low TCO server systems and participate in the fastest growing segments within the server space.