Microsoft Partners With Qualcomm To Open Floodgates For ARM-Based Data Center

The ARM chip architecture reigns supreme in smartphones. For years, companies have tried to port the ARM architecture over to the data center world, but had little success. Intel and its x86 processor architecture have the backend computing infrastructure locked down with around 99% market share. That's likely about to change.

#Microsoft, owner of some of the biggest data center infrastructure in the world, is getting behind mobile chip giant #Qualcomm 's fledgling #ARM server efforts. This marks one of the most significant commitments from a major cloud vendor for an ARM-based processor. The goal is to get a Qualcomm-based server powering Microsoft's #Azure cloud and other internal services.

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