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It proves the viability of ARM for desktops, laptops, and probably eventually servers too. Intel having been humiliated by this will loosen their grip on OEMs w
by mikepurvis 6y ago
It proves the viability of ARM for desktops, laptops, and probably eventually servers too. Intel having been humiliated by this will loosen their grip on OEMs who will now be under pressure in the inevitable rush to produce appealing, performance-oriented ARM laptops, as the current market has basically been Chromebooks and some half-hearted Windows ARM tablets, all based on chips adapted from phones.
And of course there will also be the rush on the fab side to produce a non-Apple chip that's actually suitable for these machines, which will in turn have performance characteristics far more suited to server use than any previous ARM chip, enabling that market and feeding back a demand for larger and more performant server ARM chips and mainboards— and who knows, maybe even some kind of socket standard so they aren't soldered down like it is today.
- thayne 6y agoARM is already pretty viable for servers. At least viable enough that most of the major cloud providers have arm64 based instances available.
- stouset 6y agoI think there’s a qualitative difference here between viable (which is where we’re currently at) and utterly dominant (which is where I suspect we’ll be in five or so years).
- throwaway894345 6y agoI agree, but even still how does that affect Intel’s business model? Are they incapable of building ARM chips and selling them the same way as their x86 chips? Seems like the business model is fine but the product will need to change, no?
- 5ersi 6y agoSure they can, but at vastly lower profit margins.
- mikepurvis 6y agoYup, because they'll actually be in competition with all the other ARM licensees, instead of just in a duopoly with AMD.
- pjmlp 6y agoARM started on the desktop.
- mikepurvis 6y agoBut for the last twenty years, surely pretty much every linux-capable ARM part produced in excess of Q>1M has fallen into one of two buckets— either a) a device that runs on batteries, or b) an embedded, specialized processor such as for a router, vehicle infotainment, or home appliance.
- pjmlp 6y agoThat sums pretty much the actual usefulness of Linux itself.