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What is "Graviton2" in this context? There's no Wikipedia page for it, and the regular google search results all loop back to this AWS announcement.
by SideburnsOfDoom 7y ago
What is "Graviton2" in this context?
There's no Wikipedia page for it, and the regular google search results all loop back to this AWS announcement.
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y agoI am gathering that it's a chip, a CPU chip, seem to be ARM architecture not intel x86; and is an important chip or will be due to this? I don't know why though.
- PeterCorless 7y agoHere's our take. This is big. https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-dominance/ https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y agoI'm still reading between the lines here, which is frustrating and doesn't reflect well on the journalism; So you say: "AWS announced in late 2018 the EC2 A1 instances, featuring their own AWS-manufactured Arm silicon" ... "AWS during its annual re:Invent conference announced the availability of their new class of Arm-based servers, the M6g and M6gd instances among others, based on the Graviton2 processor." So the Graviton2 is made by Amazon as well? Under licence from ARM, I mean, like other ARM design chips. _edit_ Looks like it, yes. Here is the context necessary to understand the story: https://www.wired.com/story/new-amazon-chips-cloud-computing/ https://www.wired.com/story/new-amazon-chips-cloud-computing... https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-amzn-to-release-new-server-chip%3A-will-it-hurt-intel-2019-12-04 https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-amzn-to-release-new-s...
- SideburnsOfDoom 7y agoHere is the context necessary to understand the story: https://www.wired.com/story/new-amazon-chips-cloud-computing/ https://www.wired.com/story/new-amazon-chips-cloud-computing... https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-amzn-to-release-new-server-chip%3A-will-it-hurt-intel-2019-12-04 https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-amzn-to-release-new-s...