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Amazon: ARM Chipmakers Aren’t Matching Intel’s Innovation

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/amazon-arm-chipmakers-aren-t-matching-intel-s-innovation.html

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), which operates some of the world’s largest data centers, said makers of chips that use ARM Holdings Plc (ARM)’s technology aren’t keeping up with Intel Corp. (INTC)’s pace of innovation.

As a result, Amazon isn’t ready to start using alternatives to Intel’s chips in its servers, according to James Hamilton, a vice president for Amazon Web Services, which provides computing power and storage over the Internet to other companies.

“It’s just not quite moving fast enough,” Hamilton said in an interview, referring to the pace of development of ARM-chip technology. He spoke after a presentation at Amazon’s annual Web-services conference in Las Vegas.

ARM spokesman Edmund Gemmell declined to comment.