ARM Server Built by Taiwanese Manufacturer MiTAC Revealed

ARM on Tuesday showed a server using its processors built by Taiwanese manufacturer MiTAC, which will join U.S. makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard in producing ARM-based servers.

The GFX Server uses 1.6GHz ARM processors and is ready to run a version of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, which ARM showed in a live demonstration at the Computex exhibition in Taiwan.

ARM is a U.K. company that licenses processor designs to chip makers. Its designs are often used in mobile phones and other consumer electronics. The firm is targeting the lucrative server space, but acknowledged Tuesday that its processors will initially be best suited for less intensive tasks. "Certainly web serving, what I would call middle-tier applications, like mem-cache is a good fit, and offline analytics," said Ian Ferguson, director of server systems at ARM.