[rdmckenzie]

Writing this as a now ex-employee, I'm sure that our IP will live on. We had some really neat stuff in the pipeline, and I look forwards to seeing it hit the big time in the next few years. Whether Calxeda proper will be acquired or whether the IP will be sold piecemeal only time will tell. Personally I'm not convinced that the company in it's "entirety" will be bough out. At this point it's the IP not the assets or people that's valuable.

I also totally agree with your assessment that we had a cool idea too early. That was in fact what Barry said at today's closing down meeting. ARM in the datacenter will happen, but that we didn't have a 64 bit chip really limited our hardware offerings to say the least.

[hhw]

Sorry for your lost job. In all honesty though, I don't think ARM in the data centre will ever be anything more than a niche product. Considering Intel is 2 manufacturing processes ahead, the microarchitecture and any potential advantages there won't even really come into play, and Intel's not exactly any slouch either. If 64bit ARM came out a year ago, there might have been a fighting chance, but any chances of a major uptake pretty much died with the release of Avoton. That may very well have been why the next round of funding fell through. Intel's next two generations, Broadwell and Skylake, are both heavily focused on reducing power consumption, and achieving parity with their peformance/watt would be enough of a challenge, let alone creating a significant enough advantage to take away a real amount of market share.

Best of luck on your next venture.