In a presentation at Stanford’s Hot Chips conference on Tuesday, ARM added a few more drops to the trickle of information that’s coming out which suggests that the UK-based mobile and embedded processor designer is very seriously pursuing the server market. Specifically, ARM’s David Brash described a new set of virtualization extensions for the ARM-v7-A architecture, which will be included in the follow-on to Cortex A9. Brash also described an OS-managed address extension that will alleviate some of the I/O and memory pressure that goes with ARM’s 4GB memory limit.

This upcoming architecture is codenamed “Eagle,” and Brash indicated that it will be unveiled soon. The virtualization and address extensions for Eagle lend credence to what has been heard from other sources, which is that Eagle has some features that are clearly aimed higher-end, non-mobile or embedded applications and that many ARM vendors are shopping detailed ARM-based server roadmaps to some major cloud customers.

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