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I am a huge ARM fan (am currently building a handheld based on the nvidia tegra developer devkit). However I feel sceptical that ARM will go anywhere on servers
by dman 17y ago
I am a huge ARM fan (am currently building a handheld based on the nvidia tegra developer devkit). However I feel sceptical that ARM will go anywhere on servers. Just like VIA didnt go anywhere when it was the only mainstream SOC around, just like ARM didnt go anywhere in netbooks and just like AMD has yes to penetrate significant market share inspite having a huge performance lead for ~2 years in the pentium 4 days. Intel is the big gorilla in the room and are very adept at coming up with solutions that get 80% of the way there (like atom) whenever a new market niche opens up. Then they use their marketing muscle to make sure that the new niche doesnt get exploited by an upcoming competitor. So ARM might make the best performance/watt chips out there, but if they dont have the muscle to get design wins and ship in actual servers then sadly they will continue to remain a fringe player in the server market.
- madmaze 17y agoso i absolutly agree, im also a big ARM fan,and id love to see them get into the server market. its about time for another architecture to be doin something.. i think with the right approach enough software "muscle" will get ported. the the proposition to have chips that perform at a tiny fraction of the power consumption as current chips is just too lucrative to give up.
- ippisl 17y agoI think you start to see ARM replacing intel. in some sense IPAD is replacing some netbooks. ARM's biggest problem was windows on the netbook. usally when disruption happens , it replaces a whole value chain with another. that's what's the IPAD is doing, and chrome os might do. So you would have the apple's and google's marketing machines (and other big companies around the ARM architecture), fighting against intel's. that's a more fair fight than intel VS amd.