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Not surprised given: 1. A lot of cloud services are abstracting CPU architecture. E.g. you don't care on which CPU AWS S3 runs. 2. ARM is using less power tha
by jakozaur 9y ago
Not surprised given:
1. A lot of cloud services are abstracting CPU architecture. E.g. you don't care on which CPU AWS S3 runs.
2. ARM is using less power than x86.
3. ARM license fees are so low comparing to Intel high gross margins. Whole mobile world runs on ARMs and little profit is made on CPUs there comparing to Intel cash cow server chips.
- stephenr 9y agoPoint 1 is not really related to “the cloud”. If you use a storage apppiance - be it a local NAS or S3 or B2 - you likely aren’t interested in the cpu running it. A better comparison would be if you didn’t care what cpu Amazon Lambda ran on. Which, maybe you don’t, if you use it with an interpreted language.
- ofrzeta 9y ago1. Is it? Actually I do not want to recompile all software. Did you try running Docker or Kubernetes with ARM? It's there but there's not a whole lot of software/images you can run.
- exikyut 9y agoSoftware follows hardware. Software is just commentary, particularly throwaway software.