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Yeah, I really can't imagine how one would class it as healthy let alone even a serious competition. x86 and ARM, however, are starting to have a real battle wi

Yeah, I really can't imagine how one would class it as healthy let alone even a serious competition. x86 and ARM, however, are starting to have a real battle with ARM owning mobile, making headwinds into laptops and desktops at Apple and multiple vendors producing meaningful server chips.

deelowe 5y ago
ARM is making headwinds into server as well now.
- monocasa 5y ago
  It's hard to tell apples->apples when you can't buy the leading edge ARM servers outright AFAIK. There's a good argument that it's in the hyperscalers' best interest to discount ARM usage to even below their breakeven to put negotiating pressure on their x86 core suppliers as long as they balance the costs well enough.
JensensStapler 5y ago
Merchant ARM server is mostly dead unfortunately. Hyperscalers like AWS are making their own SoCs in house however. Amazona acquired Annapurna labs for that purpose. Personally I see there being more market overlap between ARM and the P550 core however. Samsung, Qualcomm, Renesas are all planning to bring RISC-V cores to market. With performance between A75 and A76, I could see the P550 being a pretty major disruptor. We already know some RISC-V chips are gaining traction in embedded, IoT, RF, micro-controllers, etc. Automotive looks like the next big market for RISC-V to me.
- foobarbazetc 5y ago
  Ah, this isn’t true. Ampere is very competitive and Oracle have made huge investments into that platform, with Cloudflare etc looking at it very seriously as well. Arm on servers is just getting started.
1-6 5y ago
With RISC-V and SiFive, companies are able to build their own optimizations and make them MORE proprietary. I'll cringe if VLC will come with various versions: x86, M1, IntelRISC-V, QualcommARM, SamsungARM, SamsungRISC-V etc.