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Actually the market for mobile yes. But on servers it will actually take a long time to replace ARM. So it's actually a win for customers when these two are riv

by merb 11y ago

Actually the market for mobile yes. But on servers it will actually take a long time to replace ARM. So it's actually a win for customers when these two are rivals since we get cheaper servers or lower tdp on servers and cheaper mobile devices.

kyrra 11y ago
Server side, there is an initiative to get rid of Intel as well[0][1] with a PowerPC based chip. It'll be interesting to see if it ends up working, but I think everyone wants to get away from Intel's high prices. [0] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/Google-and-Rackspace-co-develop-open-server-architecture-based-on-new-IBM-POWER9-hardware.html https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/Google-and-Rack... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation