Scaleway, a French cloud company, offers the T-HEAD TH1520 SoC chip from the Alibaba group for cloud services. This provides servers at a relatively low price compared to the RAM size of 16GB. Currently, the EM-RV1 servers feature a 4-core 1.85GHz CPU, 16GB RAM, 128GB storage, 100Mbps network, priced at 0.042 euros per hour or around 16 euros per month. In comparison, x86 machines with 4 cores and 16GB RAM often exceed 60 euros per month. Scaleway designed their own servers to fit 672 EM-RV1 machines in a 52U rack, each consuming a maximum of 1.9 watts per core. Now available at the Paris data center, supporting Debian, Ubuntu, and Alpine operating systems.
TLDR: Scaleway introduces affordable servers with T-HEAD TH1520 SoC chip, offering cost-effective cloud solutions with high energy efficiency and support for multiple operating systems.
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