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> Providing the best high-end chips is insufficient to remain competitive long-term Reason Alpha SPARC and POWER failed was they did not support the de facto s
by galaxyLogic 6y ago
> Providing the best high-end chips is insufficient to remain competitive long-term
Reason Alpha SPARC and POWER failed was they did not support the de facto standard X86 instruction-set, I believe. So the fastest most power efficient chip is not enough unless it can also run the most common software
- minot 6y ago> most common software Maybe it is different this time because well for one Intel and AMD are on the same architecture but more importantly for arm or other platform, maybe this time is different because the servers mostly run on open source software. Given the potential revenue, I'd imagine it should be pretty straightforward to port common server software to any architecture if it isn't already?
- HelloNurse 6y agoIn this case "most common software" meant proprietary and nonportable operating systems and applications. Would you buy a server that will run the software you want to use either never (Windows and Windows applications developed on Windows) or maybe, eventually, as long as the new platform is a success (only slightly more portable proprietary Unix variants)?