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Nobody is going to try to compete with Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 from year one of a new ISA, for the same reason ARM chip makers didn't try to do that for ye
by mtgx 9y ago
Nobody is going to try to compete with Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 from year one of a new ISA, for the same reason ARM chip makers didn't try to do that for years. It's just too risky and the investments need to be much bigger. Instead you "grow your way up" as ARM chips have done.
Now, Cavium's Vulcan-based ThunderX2 seems to be beating Intel's Skylake server chips:
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/27/cavium-truly-contender-one-two-arm-server-punch/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/11/27/cavium-truly-contend...
- monocasa 9y agoCavium is still no where near intel on single core performance; they just threw way more simpler cores onto a chip.
- mtgx 9y agoI can still see it as a great option for say shared hosting providers. Multiple times as many customers could be supported for the price they pay for Intel chips.
- monocasa 9y agoAbsolutely. Just saying that in the context of performance/cycle/core, they're closer to a bunch of Atoms than a Xeon (which, again, is totally fine for some use cases).