Now Facebook Is Looking At Dumping Intel For ARM

Following on from the news that Google GOOG +1.39% is looking at dropping Intel’s chips for its server farms in favour of custom designed chips based upon the ARM design, we hear of something very similar from Facebook. Indeed, Facebook is sufficiently interested in the idea that it is already making sure that it’s code would be compatible with such a move:

Facebook has taken further steps in its quest to run production workloads on ARM-powered servers.
The smoking gun for this dramatic shift was a post by Facebook on the Hip Hop Virtual Machine blog on Thursday that indicated the team is implementing ARM processor support in its translation engine, which turns Facebook’s PHP code into 64-bit x86 instructions to execute on compute nodes. The HHVM is Facebook’s fundamental unit for running its mammoth PHP-based social network.

We had the speculation about Google making a similar move just a couple of days ago.. Read More: Intel