Engineering:Qualcomm Centriq
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| Launched | 2017 |
| Marketed by | Qualcomm |
| Designed by | Qualcomm |
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| Instructions | ARMv8-A |
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Centriq (/sɛnˈtriːk/ sen-TREEK[2]) is a brand of system on a chip (SoC) semiconductor products designed and marketed by Qualcomm for data centers. The Centriq central processing unit (CPU) uses the ARM RISC instruction set, with multiple CPU cores in a single chip.
History
Pre-release
In November 2014, Qualcomm announced it was developing an ARM ARMv8-A microarchitecture based CPU that was purpose-built for data centers.[3] In December 2016, the company announced and demonstrated the first multi-core CPUs based on a custom ARM ARMv8-A microarchitecture.
Early products
The first Centriq 2400 series of products were made available to server manufacturers in November 2017.[1] With these first products, Qualcomm introduced its "Falkor" ARMv8-A microarchitecture. The chip has up to 48 of Qualcomm's custom designed "Falkor" cores at up to 2.6GHz, with six-channel DDR4 memory and a 60 MB L3 cache.[4][5]
Market environment
A number of reviews have noted at its release that the Centriq is expected to face significant competition from established x86-64 data-center CPU manufacturers Intel and AMD, and ARM microarchitecture server products such as Cavium's ThunderX2.[6][7] In addition to competitive pressures, it has been noted that running established workloads on ARM microarchitectures requires re-optimizing and recompiling the software, or x86-64 emulation, presenting a barrier to entry for some potential customers.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kennedy, Anthony (8 November 2017). "Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Officially Launched". Serve the Home. https://www.servethehome.com/qualcomm-centriq-2400-officially-launched/.
- ↑ "Qualcomm ARM Server Centriq 2400 at Linaro Connect San Francisco 2017". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdvZ8lRyV0o.
- ↑ Shilov, Anton (16 December 2016). "Qualcomm Demos 48-core Centriq Server SoC in Action, Begins Sampling". Anandtech. https://www.anandtech.com/show/10918/qualcomm-demos-48core-centriq-2400-server-soc-in-action-begins-sampling.
- ↑ Kennedy, Patrick (23 August 2017). "Qualcomm Centriq 2400 ARM CPU from Hot Chips 29". Serve The Home. https://www.servethehome.com/qualcomm-centriq-2400-arm-cpu-hot-chips-29/.
- ↑ Kennedy, Patrick (6 October 2017). "New Qualcomm Centriq 2400 details 48 cores 60MB L3 cache over 2GHz". Serve the Home. https://www.servethehome.com/new-qualcomm-centriq-2400-details-48-cores-60mb-l3-cache-2ghz/.
- ↑ Cutress, Ian (20 August 2017). "Analyzing Falkor's Microarchitecture". Anandtech. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11737/analyzing-falkors-microarchitecture-a-deep-dive-into-qualcomms-centriq-2400-for-windows-server-and-linux.
- ↑ Kennedy, Patrick (8 November 2017). "Analyzing Key Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Market Headwinds". Serve the Home. https://www.servethehome.com/analyzing-key-qualcomm-centriq-2400-market-headwinds/.
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