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In what way is the datacenter market dying? Are Googles and Facebooks and Cloudfares and Microsofts and Amazons suddenly decommissioning huge racks of computers
by titzer 6y ago
In what way is the datacenter market dying? Are Googles and Facebooks and Cloudfares and Microsofts and Amazons suddenly decommissioning huge racks of computers while their cloud businesses take off? What is that cloud made of?
- snotrockets 6y agoThose all owns their datacenters (and some can afford to design their own CPUs for those). Renting racks isn't dying yet, but it is on a downward trajectory.
- pmontra 6y agoMaybe because every tier 1 cloud provider is starting to design its own CPU. If this is the trend there will be little left to sell them.
- titzer 6y agoCan you name a cloud provider that has recently launched their own CPU?
- dehrmann 6y agoGraviton's been out for a while. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-designing-its-own-arm-chips-for-datacenter-servers-report/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-designing-its-own... I haven't seen anything on this from GCP, but Google builds so much in-house, I'm sure they've at least considered it.
- lowbloodsugar 6y agoAWS is on its second in-house ARM chip. You can launch an M6g/R6g/C6g right now. If you have workloads on the cloud, you should be benchmarking already, as they will likely be cheaper for any given workload.