[tonyplee]

This Marvell SOC has 16 Serdes integrated inside the SOC can be partition to Gige ethernet, SATA, or PCIe in any numbers of ways.

http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/

Along with low power, make it very interesting.

I can see someone put 64, 128 of them in 1U chassis. This might be interesting low cost system for someone who need simulcast live video streams to millions of users at really low cost.

"64 4 cores CPU each with integrated 16 GIGE ports for fan out live video stream that potentially fit inside 1U chassis"

[nbkolchin]

128 Armada cores in 1U is nearly impossible due to cooling issues.

[tonyplee]

May be not for Armada, but most of cell phone ARM cpu, the power is 1-2 watts at max frequency.

If that hold true, 128 SOC in 1U can be 2-300 Watts. That can true ly go against x86 for "some" applications.

[nbkolchin]

Actually 3-5 for current gen. And you don't count all other things that are necessary for practical system: PCI-E connectors, RAM, Ethernet PHYs, etc.

P.S. I believe in 64 in 2U, though.