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It seems Cade Metz has hit a raw nerve with his "Cellphone Chips Will Remake
the Server World. Period." article at the WIRED:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/facebook-arm-chips/

ARM server vendors appear to assume that the people who will use ARM first are using
computers to manufacture profit not to do traditional IT. If you use computers to
manufacture profit, you are always interested in improving the efficiency of your
ability to manufacture profit. This is where price-per-compute-unit, compute-per-watt
will move to the fore. It is obvious that traditional enterprise users are not going
to look at ARM based servers first. They will move last, if at all.

There are some studies which show that the class of customers who use computers to
manufacture profit is growing an order of magnitude faster than the other segments
of the market. J.P. Morgan is one of the top 10 buyers of CPUs. Facebook in its fifth
year of operation bought more CPUs than the total of the previous four years. It is
at these type of companies where the battle is going to rage.

With one million servers, Google is believed to be the largest end user of
Intel CPUs. The only component they are not building is the CPU. Are they planning
to build their own CPU?