We're changing server economics

However, when everything will be connected and require its own compute, both the power efficiency and the economics will need to change. “What’s interesting is it’s as disruptive from a business perspective as things are from the innovation side,” Muller aid. “We have a different business model and [chips using our IP] will be sold in a different way that enables technology as so then.”

One big question will be if the webscale market will welcome such a wide variety of hardware platforms for its applications. Vendors have come and gone in the specialty computing space for the last few decades, and even the most successful couldn’t make much of a dent in the x86 market.

At scale, where computing seems to be trending, it’s hard to justify a lot of specialty hardware, so even variations on the same ARM architecture might be suspect. However they may not, and the resulting years should prove anything yet boring in the server space.