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I hope so too, but I'm not holding my breath. Competing with high-end x86 or POWER for maximum single-thread performance is (with my layman understanding) incre
by jabl 9y ago
I hope so too, but I'm not holding my breath. Competing with high-end x86 or POWER for maximum single-thread performance is (with my layman understanding) incredibly expensive. Or if you by server CPU's mean something like the recently announced Qualcomm Centriq, competing mostly in terms of throughput/W/$ while still having decent single-thread performance, that's maybe a step easier but still very expensive.
Now, if RISC-V really takes off, I guess at some point we'll see such chips. But "maximum single-thread performance" is probably the last bastion to be attacked.
- nickik 9y agoTotally agree. You don't need "maximum singe-thread performance" to be useful on many server loads. If the energy is cheaper container infrastructure might want to move over. Lets hope that RISC-V can overtake ARM on this. Seems to me that Esperanto could build something along the lines of a Centriq as well if they wanted to get into this. I guess they see more money in ML right now, but its good that ARM is pushing into that market and showing viability of lower power chips.