"An analysis of another ARM design from AppliedMicro, its third-generation X-Gene product, shows performance comparable to Intel’s mainstream Xeon E5 CPU, AppliedMicro’s real competition, however, is Intel. X-Gene 3 is on track to surpass Xeon D and even many Xeon E5 processors in per-socket throughput while delivering respectable per-thread performance. X-Gene 3 crushes the current Xeon E5 in memory bandwidth, and we don’t expect Intel to address this problem in Skylake to avoid undercutting its high-margin Xeon E7 business."