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Seems like Intel's margins are a good incentive for OCP members to design their own processors. Google has made some noise about that (but I guess that could be
by IBM 10y ago
Seems like Intel's margins are a good incentive for OCP members to design their own processors. Google has made some noise about that (but I guess that could be a bluff as well) [1].
[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/googles-making-chips-now-time-intel-freak/ https://www.wired.com/2016/05/googles-making-chips-now-time-...
- gogopuppygogo 10y agoHardware is hard and expensive. I doubt there is enough industry support financially to commit to designing an open source CPU to be compatible with software designed for Intel CPU's. It's just the cost of doing business.
- wmf 10y agoCompatibility isn't what it used to be; all Google software runs on x86, Power, and probably ARM. There are probably a dozen ARM server processors being designed right now, so either there's a huge bubble or the market is big enough.