Revision as of 14:55, 23 September 2018

X-Gene
Developer	AppliedMicro
Manufacturer	TSMC
Type	Microprocessors
Introduction	October 28, 2011 (announced) 2012 (launch)
ISA	ARM
µarch	Storm, Shadowcat, Skylark
Word size	64 bit 8 octets 16 nibbles
Process	40 nm 0.04 μm 4.0e-5 mm , 28 nm 0.028 μm 2.8e-5 mm , 16 nm 0.016 μm 1.6e-5 mm
Technology	CMOS
Clock	2.4 GHz-3.3 GHz
Succession
	→
	eMAG

X-Gene was a family of 64-bit ARM server microprocessors designed and introduced by AppliedMicro.

Overview

X-Gene was a family of high-performance multi-core ARM microprocessors first announced by AppliedMicro in 2011. Unlike their traditional product offering, X-Gene directly targeted high-performance data center servers, a market predominantly dominated by Intel Xeon processors. AppliedMicro introduced two generations of server processors based on their own custom ARM microarchitectures - Storm and Shadowcat. Those two generations shipped a total of 25,000 units. In late 2016, MACOM acquired AppliedMicro resulting in the shelving of third-generation X-Gene based on the Skylake microarchitecture. The X-Gene intellectual property including most of the design team was eventually sold to Ampere Computing has rebranded the design and improved on it under the eMAG brand.

Members

X-Gene 1

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X-Gene 2

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X-Gene 3

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See also

• Cavium ThunderX2
• Qualcomm Centriq

Bibliography

• David Schor. (February 5, 2018). "X-Gene 3 gets a second chance at Ampere with a new 32-core 16nm ARM processor".