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Until they succeeds to persuade AWS/GCE/Azure to sell ARM backed instances, they will be taken seriously.

• SixSigma 11y ago
  Let's not lose sight of who James Hamilton is : From his Linkedin : VP & Distinguished Engineer Amazon.com December 2008 – Present (6 years 11 months) A member of the Amazon Web Services team. Specializes in infrastructure efficiency, reliability and scaling. Prior to joining Amazon.com, James was Microsoft Data Center Futures Architect. He has spent more than 20 years working on high-scale services, database management systems, and compilers. And a couple of biographies : http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/1/12/the-stunning-scale-of-aws-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-o.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/1/12/the-stunning-scale... http://www.wired.com/2013/02/james-hamilton-amazon/ http://www.wired.com/2013/02/james-hamilton-amazon/
  • eva1984 11y ago
    Oh, that actually makes more sense...
  • AstroJetson 11y ago
    He presently lives on his trawler, he's presently on an island 1200 miles west of Australia. http://blog.mvdirona.com/
• whiterabbit_obj 11y ago
  Actually, Amazon bought last year Annapurna Labs for $400M. Annapurna Labs, while being secretive, was known to design ARM chips to servers (Fabless), and is probably one of the only startups in the recent years in the stagnant chips market. Why would Amazon invest & buy a chip design firm if it was not intending to ditch Intel and try placing some ARM chips in its servers?
  • wmf 11y ago
    But those ARMs may be used in infrastructure that is never exposed to customers.