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Cavium claims the chips are “game changing,” combining 48 CPU “cores” on chip, in what it says are the “world’s highest performing low-power 64-bit ARMv8 SoC family of workload optimized processors.” The chips will sample to customers in Q4 of this year, Cavium said.

Seems like someone is trying to throw many cores at the problem. As if it were that simple. They need some clever cache and memory handling in order to make that scale anywhere close to performance per core x cores. That's the difficult part and I doubt they have the know how nore ARM has it. We'll see how that compares to Xeon in multithreaded benchmarks.

The next question is price: How can they, with their little volume and the high R&D cost be cheaper than Intel? It's not that they are going to have prices like Qualcomm with their billions of SoC and the aoccording silicon prices.