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There are only a few end markets for semiconductors that really drive the technology. Mobile, obviously. But mobile also drives cloud datacenter deployment since our smartphones increasingly split their functionality with big datacenters (the iPhone's Siri, for example, runs mostly in the cloud). There is a move towards hyperscale datacenters and, increasingly, only the largest users can justify building their own datacenters rather than renting capacity. Netflix, for example, has run all their video pumps on Amazon for a long time but recently moved everything over, including internal systems like HR.

So to get an idea of what is going on in this space, I went to some of the Open Server Summit last week. I find the most impressive thing about datacenter deployment, when I hear the details, is the sheer scale of operations.

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