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Didn't notice M6g coming out of trials. Well I for long thought that taping out own CPU chips, even on Amazon's scale, wasn't that cheap. The time of Intel de
by baybal2 6y ago
Didn't notice M6g coming out of trials.
Well I for long thought that taping out own CPU chips, even on Amazon's scale, wasn't that cheap.
The time of Intel demanding obscene prices for high core count server CPUs is at least 2 years since passed.
I was thinking if it still makes sense economically for Amazon to continue developing, and buying their own CPUs given that.
- btian 6y agoI’m willing to bet a lot of money that Amazon started designing these CPUs more than 2 years ago.
- ksec 6y agoAmazon is estimated to be representing close to 50% of HyperScaler Market. And the Market segment itself is also roughly 50% of the DC Market. While Intel dont disclose their CPU segment of their DC, you can bet it is the vast majority. Which gives you a rough idea of the scale of Amazon spending, i.e around 20% of Intel DC revenue. And once you see those numbers, even if it is off by 30% or even double counted. Developing cost of CPU, especially when it is more of "working" together with ARM on developing Graviton 2 ( which it in itself extremely similar to ARM's reference design ) doesn't seems to be expensive or out of question.