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There is quite literally no viable alternative to x86 for 95% (more like 99.9%, but I am being generous) of the server and workstation market. Pretending like t
by throwaway2048 8y ago
There is quite literally no viable alternative to x86 for 95% (more like 99.9%, but I am being generous) of the server and workstation market. Pretending like there is and anyone choosing x86 is irresponsible is just being a smug fool.
- PeCaN 8y agoPOWER is actually competitive on price/performance now.
- floatboth 8y agoEh… Not for the home enthusiast workstation market. The CPUs are actually kinda reasonable (Raptor sells the 8-core for $595, which is only $95 more than the launch price of the Ryzen 1800X). But the lite mainboard is $1,099. That's 5-10 times more that a board for Ryzen. And a lot is missing on the "lite".
- PeCaN 8y agoContext here is "server and workstation market". The Ryzen 1800X is not a comparable CPU.
- ianmunoz 8y agoThe newest super computer, summit, ranked as the largest/fastest runs ppc64le which definitely creates an argument that there is an alternative to x86 for servers.
- selectodude 8y agoThings that run on super computers tend to be developed specifically for that exact computer so they can use whatever they want.
- turblety 8y agoI would say the server market could easily adapt to Arm, Power or RISC. However I would concede it's very difficult to replace the desktop/laptop workstation. However Chromebooks are making great strives on this. Yes, they are still sending lots of data to Googles servers, but they do a lot of opensource work. Look at coreboot with depthcharge, which can give you a pretty free (not 100%) Arm notebook.
- Dylan16807 8y agoHuh? This has nothing to do with x86.