Calxeda, Chipmaker Who Sought to Bring ARM to Servers, Has Shut Down

This is sad news and frankly quite surprising. I have been looking forward to cheap low-power Ceph nodes: http://www.inktank.com/calxeda/

With ARM supporting virtualization these days, what's keeping them from becoming a large datacenter actor? Except for the obvious lack of funds.

I could never understand how they managed to be around as long as they have. I was constantly assured that they had high untold value in IP.

Really sad to see this happen. Some really great people working there, with great potential.