The important value of the Internet of Things is that it can generate valuable information by processing and analyzing the massive data collected by sensors. Therefore, giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Ali Baidu have increased their investment in big data. The fierceness of big data is bound to drive the growth of the server market. At present, the Intel x86 architecture in the server chip market is absolutely mainstream. The huge market will allow IBM and ARM to step up the layout. What kind of pattern will be presented in the future?
Global server market downturn data center into a driving force
Gartner's first quarter 2016 global server market report shows that the global server market is still in a relatively sluggish growth cycle. In the first quarter of 2016, global server sales decreased by 2.3% year-on-year, while shipments remained at a low level of 1.7%. The Asia Pacific region was the most eye-catching, with sales and shipments increasing by 9.7% and 8.4%, respectively, and the Chinese market achieved double sales and shipments.
According to the report, in the first quarter of 2016, the total shipment volume of the Chinese server market was 553,000 units, an increase of 11% year-on-year; the overall sales reached US$2.12 billion, a year-on-year increase of 12%. According to IDC data, China's server chip market will be 3.7 million in 2015 and 8.6 million in 2020.
Jeffrey Hewitt, vice president of research at Gartner, believes that "the driving force behind the growth of global servers is from very large data centers, and the growth of SMEs is relatively flat. As end users, they are responding to virtualization and cloud computing. Growing application needs."
Although the current server market is sluggish, the prospects are promising, so the competition between Intel and IBM and ARM, which already has a market share of 99.2%, is gradually heating up.
IBM open source Power architecture to kill x86 closed architecture
Seven or eight years ago, x86 servers and non-x86 architecture servers were equally divided. At that time, IBM's RISC/Unix system was favored by large enterprises. People think more or less that x86 servers are more suitable for SMBs and desktop servers. In less than a decade, the Intel x86 architecture successfully occupied a major share of the server market, and the RISC server represented by IBM was squeezed into the corner.
Market share of X86 and non-x86 architecture servers
So, IBM made a decision to announce the establishment of the OpenPower Alliance with Google, Taian, Nvdia, Mellanox and other companies (later developed into the OpenPower Foundation) and open source Power Architecture! Since 2013, the open OpenPower Foundation has grown from an initial five members to 280 members, including 30 Chinese.
The open Power architecture brings higher cost performance. At present, the domestic server uses the CP1 processor in Zhonghao Hongxin. The main frequency 4GHz can provide 12 cores and 96 threads, and supports 1024GB of memory. According to the introduction, it is equivalent to Intel E5. Processor performance is quite comparable, but the power consumption is comparable but the cost is slightly higher.
Wang Xuesong of Zhongtai Server said that the POWER server is particularly suitable for deep customization in certain areas, and the optimized performance is outstanding, which can save the enterprise a lot of server costs. “Now many data centers or large companies have to purchase tens of thousands of servers, which can save customers a lot of costs.â€
Under the open architecture, in addition to the cost-effective manufacturers, they also made a big safety card and proposed a safe and controllable server. For example, Interli said that from the design and development, manufacturing and after-sales service, it completely realizes the absolute security. Beijing Chuanghe Communication also called out "domestic hardware, The slogan of shielding the back door and system security.
In addition, Suzhou Zhonghao Hongxin Information Technology Co., Ltd. has announced that the company has obtained a permanent license for the IBM server processor chip Power 8 chip architecture and command system, and can independently innovate based on the chip. Zheng Hao, Chairman of Zhonghao Hongxin explained: "After the introduction of Power 8, it is necessary to redesign the security module of China's independent standards in combination with government requirements and vendor migration requirements. Initially learn IBM technology based on master source code and make controllable Chip, later, with the help of IBM, the chip structure is defined autonomously."
From this point of view, the openness of IBM's Power architecture has led to the formation of a complete small ecosystem in China. For example, in the POWER server, it has formed the core design service, Suzhou Zhonghao Hongxin server chip, red flag. Server operating system, Nanda General Data, Zhongtai Server, Inspur, Intelli, Chuanghe Communication, Beijing Hongxiang Yunteng and other complete upstream and downstream service systems. Power architecture servers are promising, but in the face of Intel's 99% server market share, the OpenPower Alliance still faces huge challenges.
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