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> The major important players (Apple, Amazon, MS, Goog) want to go ARM and then maybe RISC-V for their own strategic reasons anyway. Source? I don't think they

by creato 6y ago

> The major important players (Apple, Amazon, MS, Goog) want to go ARM and then maybe RISC-V for their own strategic reasons anyway. Source? I don't think they care, I think they just don't want to be beholden to a single supplier, like they were to Intel for a while.

discodave 6y ago
Notice that: "AWS Graviton processors are custom built by Amazon Web Services" and "Apple Silicon" It's not just about x86 -> Arm, it's about bringing more control of the design in house. This only gets more important as we move towards more SoC type designs. Imagine, for instance, AWS doing an entire SoC with Nitro, disc controllers, memory etc on one chip. I'm not sure that they could, or would want to do such a thing with Intel and x86. Edit: Adding my sources ;) Graviton quote: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ Apple silicon quote: https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/ https://www.apple.com/mac/m1/ (for fun, try to CTRL+F this page for "arm")