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> 10-15% instant energy savings would be one heck of a reason for FB/Google/Amazon/Microsoft to veer towards ARM for their clouds I'm not sure the upfront effo
by djrogers 10y ago
> 10-15% instant energy savings would be one heck of a reason for FB/Google/Amazon/Microsoft to veer towards ARM for their clouds
I'm not sure the upfront effort/cost would be worth it for that savings alone, especially when Intel will just come along and say they'll have that savings in an x86 chip in 9 months without any software dev required.
What this could do for the big DC companies though, is provide them a lever to keep Intel on that path. That lever alone might be worth all the dev effort required to support 2 architectures in a DC for some customers - and even if it's not worth it empirically, it may make them feel like it is.