opteron a1100 arm

["C. Bergström"]

On 02/ 5/14 05:35 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:21:03PM -0600, Jim Thompson wrote:
>> On Feb 4, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Thomas Zander <riggs at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4 Feb 2014 19:31, "Mark Felder" <feld at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014, at 12:13, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>>>> AMD just presented it's ARM based CPU and motherboard. is support in
>>>>> FreeBSD planned and what is it's status?
>>>>>
>>>> Is it even available to purchase?
>>> No but it may well be an early reminder of the upcoming generation of
>>> powerful ARM servers that we don't want to leave unsupported.
>> “may well be” isn’t that attractive when the 8-core, 64-bit Intel C2000 parts are here, now, at a lower TDP
>> (20W, .vs 25W for the a1100.  22nm rocks).
>>
>> When Intel moves the C2K series to 14nm later this year, the power savings will close the door.
>>
>> The opteron a1100 samples in March, I wouldn’t expect boards before Summer.
I don't track the Atom family and not sure if C2000 is the new 
out-of-order version, but until that is available - this is no 
comparison by a long shot.

Also 5w on the cpu package could easily be made up for in a superior 
motherboard and chassis design. Think about how much power interconnects 
takes, PCIe and everything else..