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I wish individual consumers could go out and buy these processors. Amazon really has little incentive to sell them - they are not primarily a chip manufacturing
by gautamcgoel 7y ago
I wish individual consumers could go out and buy these processors. Amazon really has little incentive to sell them - they are not primarily a chip manufacturing business, and anyways, why give away their hard-fought competitive advantage? - but damn, it would be cool to stick one of these in a workstation and watch it fly.
- wmf 7y agoI expect Ampere eMAG 2 to be pretty similar to Graviton2, so you can buy that instead. (Or pretend that you're going to buy it until you see the price.)
- gautamcgoel 7y agoOh, interesting. Is Graviton designed in collaboration with Ampere?
- wmf 7y agoNo, but one has 64 N1 cores and the other has 80 N1 cores, probably with similar memory controllers and PCIe as well.
- pnako 7y agoAn ARM workstation is going to fly like a Cessna.
- wmf 7y agoSo it'll be popular with rich hobbyists?
- PeterCorless 7y agoStay tuned and look into Nuvia. https://nuviainc.com/ https://nuviainc.com/
- lsllc 7y agoYou can get rack mount servers easily enough, the ThunderX2 processors are pretty damn fast! https://www.cavium.com/news/gigabyte-announces-384-core-2u-server-powered-by-cavium-thunderx-armv8-processors https://www.cavium.com/news/gigabyte-announces-384-core-2u-s...