HP to customize Moonshot offerings, offer ARM and Xeon chips

Hewlett-Packard in the future will offer customized Moonshot servers at different prices and also offer configurations with ARM and Intel Xeon processors. HP on Monday started shipping the first offering in its new class of hyperscale servers called Moonshot, which runs on processors built for smartphones and tablets. The initial Moonshot system has a fixed configuration with 45 Proliant servers--also called cartridges--based on Intel's Atom S1200 x86 low-power processors, and will be priced at ...