Baidu, which is often called the Google of China, has apparently won the race to become the first company to deploy servers based on ARM smartphone chips in a \u201clarge-scale\u201d production environment in its data center.
\nIt\u2019s using a custom version of Marvell\u2019s low-power 32-bit quad-core Armada XP CPU Server-on-a-Chip (SOC) in a personal cloud storage system called Baidu Cloud or Baidu Pan.
\nIt\u2019s unclear whether any other kind of server is being used to deliver the service.
\nThe boxes themselves, called \u201ceasy-to-integrate,\u201d were run up by an unidentified Asian ODM.
\nMarvell, like the other dozen or so ARM fabricators, is hoping to eventually challenge industry-standard x86 servers, a situation Intel would rather avoid. ARM has forced Intel to try to cut its inefficient power consumption. <\/p>\n