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AMD is mentioned as an alternative target and that makes a lot more sense than ARM. * ARM is not a chip manufacturer, it is a CPU architecture design house. *
by gvb 16y ago
AMD is mentioned as an alternative target and that makes a lot more sense than ARM.
* ARM is not a chip manufacturer, it is a CPU architecture design house.
* Oracle runs on big to medium iron: x86, Power (IBM), SPARC, and HP (Itanium, PA-RISC). They don't run on ARM and I would speculate that it would be a major effort to port to it. Oracle already owns SPARC.
- ssp 16y agoARM is not a chip manufacturer, it is a CPU architecture design house. So is AMD after they spun off Global Foundries.
- wmf 16y agoThey're still not in the same category. AMD designs chips that are fabbed by GF. ARM designs cores, then hands them off to TI/Nvidia/Samsung/etc. to design into chips, which are then fabbed by yet another company.