ARM Community: Smart Connected Devices - ARM Community

It has been a while since I issued a blog. Earlier in the year I moved from heading the ARM server initiative to lead the group that drives all of ARM’s vertical marketing initiatives. Well, everything EXCEPT servers.

The goal of this blog is to outline some of the exciting areas that ARM is working on with its ecosystem partners across the “sensors to servers” landscape. I will delve into these areas in more detail in the coming months. So let’s start at the low end and work our way to core of the network

Greetings from New York City, where I spent the day yesterday participating in an HP event in which they further lifted the curtain on their Project Moonshot. In case you were not aware, HP’s Moonshot system announcement and the HP Pathfinder Innovation Ecosystem announcement are closely aligned with ARM’s philosophy and approach to solving technology and business challenges.

For the past 4 years, ARM has been working on bringing the low power leadership we have demonstrated in the mobile and consumer markets into the server space. In order to match the incredible growth in demand for data being generated by “always on” mobile consumers, the legacy power hungry and inefficient data center solutions cannot meet this demand in a long term sustainable fashion. Moonshot is an extremely important program because it is addressing an evolving server environment where mobility enables access to more applications and data, anytime and from anywhere.

It is going to take innovation, collective intelligence and partnership to bring a paradigm shift into this space that has been somewhat hampered by the lack of architectural choices. It’s time to move past the ...