[Info-vax] Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us

[Keith Parris]

On 4/9/2013 9:31 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>  there's a little voice in my head saying "Really, HP
 >  is going to build a new server line on another specialty
 >  chip from Intel?".

 From the white paper at 
http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-6179ENW&cc=us&lc=en

"HP intends to assemble a catalog of HP ProLiant Servers, powered with 
chips from different manufacturers, with widely varying performance and 
features, and with overlapping new introductions and update cycles. That 
will be new for our industry. These server cartridges will implement 
accelerators using a variety of technologies: x86 and ARM CPU cores, 
compute offload via GPU, DSP, FPGA, and fixed function logic, and 
eventually APUs (accelerated processing units)."

So both x86 and ARM processors as well as other options are envisioned.