Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Series ARM Server CPUs Officially Launch - Up To 48 Cores

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Phoronix: Qualcomm Centriq 2400 Series ARM Server CPUs Officially Launch - Up To 48 Cores

Qualcomm began sampling their 10nm 48-core ARM server CPU last year while today it officially launched...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qualcomm-Centriq-2400

[audi.rs4]

Do these have any potential for mining?

[Kendji]

Great home server but pricey

[audir8]

Kind of reminds me of Itanic with those prices, ha. Would be interesting to compare to an A11 and see single core performance.

[starshipeleven]

Kind of reminds me of Itanic with those prices, ha. Would be interesting to compare to an A11 and see single core performance.

Well, for 2k $ you get a midrange server xeon CPU, I've seen puppies that sell for 5k or so.

I somewhat doubt it has noteworthy single-core performance. I mean that's 40 cores in a 120w SoC.

[hajj_3]

Some benchmarks encoding x264 and x265 would be nice compared to intel and amd.

[Kemosabe]

Do I need a custom kernel and a weird error prone boot method for that with FAT16 partition because it's so fun?

[schmidtbag]

Seems like a pretty decent wattage and price for that many cores. Though I expected the peak wattage to be a little better, I'm sure this will have very nice idle wattage vs PPC and x86 competitors, because ARM CPUs tend to be good about legitimately shutting off power to unused transistors, whereas many other architectures are known to be leaky.

Do I need a custom kernel and a weird error prone boot method for that with FAT16 partition because it's so fun?

Most ARM devices (especially ARMv8) don't need/use FAT16 partitions, though most of them still have a sketchy and easy-to-break boot method.

[pal666]

Do I need a custom kernel and a weird error prone boot method for that with FAT16 partition because it's so fun?

boot method is defined by board firmware, not by cpu
you need kernel with drivers for all needed devices

[Kemosabe]

boot method is defined by board firmware, not by cpu
you need kernel with drivers for all needed devices

I should have mentioned: Only serious answers appreciated. Thanks for nothing.