It’s been a long road getting there but Hewlett-Packard has become the first major vendor to add a 64-bit ARM server to its price list.

HP has added a 64-bit ARM chip as one of the options for Moonshot, a new type of server from HP that can accommodate different chip architectures to address specific workloads.

Customers can now buy Moonshot with Applied Micro’s ARM-based X-Gene system-on-chip, in a server aimed at customers running web caching applications such as memecache, as well as high performance computing workloads that require high throughput.

HP is also offering a 32-bit ARM option from Texas instruments with an integrated DSP chip. That system is designed for processing complex data streams at high volume in real time, allowing for work such as hunting down fraud in e-commerce networks.

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