AppliedMicro has announced third generation of X-Gene, its so called Server on a Chip. Called X-Gene 3, the device is targeted at TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process and will feature 32 ARM v8 cores operating at up to 3GHz, eight DDR4-2667 memory channels and 42 PCIe Gen 3 lanes. According to the company, the device is expected to be offer four to six times the performance of current X-Gene products.
“We are finally ready to take the lid off something we have been working on for the last two years in stealth mode,” said AppliedMicro’s president and CEO Dr Paramesh Gopi. “We are really excited because X-Gene 3 gives us the opportunity to inflect the entire ARM server market.”
AppliedMicro expects to sample X-Gene 3 in the second half of 2016.
