VIDEO: Using Cell Phone Chips for Low Power Servers

Karl Freund, CalxedaStartup Calxeda has a big idea: use cell phone chips (and the ARM architecture) to create low power servers. Reducing energy consumption is something that data center operators and Internet companies are increasingly paying attention to as a way to lower costs and Calxeda (basically a chip company) will be rolling out its product in 2012. While other companies are using various low power technologies — from software to other low power chips — to reduce the energy consumption of servers, Calxeda thinks ARM is the way to go. What do you think? Check out my video interview with Calxeda’s VP Marketing Karl Freund:



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