Calxeda buck the ARM server trend by focusing on their 32-bit product...

Over at The Register, Timothy Prickett Morgan writes that networking chip and switch maker Mellanox Technologies is ramping up its efforts to play in the software-defined networking (SDN) world. With the new SwitchX-2 chips, the company will create its own OpenFlow controller and work to ensure that its switches work well with controllers from other vendors. 

The funding doubles Calxeda's war chest as investors bet on the hardware specialist's low-power ARM-based servers as a good fit for the datacentre.

If there was an overarching message from the speakers at last week's Open Hardware Summit, particularly those in the first morning block, it's that openness isn't that critical. It sounds strange coming from a conference whose name starts with "open," but speaker after speaker talked about hybrids and doing whatever...