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Not too familiar with ARM CPU names, but apparently this is a 16 nm chip from 2016. Hrm. The product itself doesn't appear to be particularly new either; their

Not too familiar with ARM CPU names, but apparently this is a 16 nm chip from 2016. Hrm. The product itself doesn't appear to be particularly new either; their YouTube video is from March 31, 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdRSCQfhyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxdRSCQfhyw), and this blog article is dated February 24, 2021: https://www.solid-run.com/blog/articles/honeycomb-lx2-server/ https://www.solid-run.com/blog/articles/honeycomb-lx2-server... and this "early access sale" (https://www.solid-run.com/news/early-access-limited-offer-honeycomb-lx2k-workstation/ https://www.solid-run.com/news/early-access-limited-offer-ho...) is from June 7, 2019. (You have to go to pages like https://www.solid-run.com/blog/page/3/ https://www.solid-run.com/blog/page/3/ to find the dates.) I don't think ARM chips will take off on "real computers" until you can buy CPUs and motherboards independently. And if that is difficult for technical reasons (e.g., no standardized BIOS/hardware discoverability -- I'm just extrapolating from ARM-based dev boards I have used, maybe this exists on computers like this) then I think it's going to take a long time -- perhaps RISC-V-based "real computers" will appear before that.

wmf 5y ago
...until you can buy CPUs and motherboards independently Ampere Altra is socketed; too bad the motherboard alone is ~$5,000. standardized BIOS/hardware discoverability This is solved with SBSA/ServerReady/SystemReady.
- p_l 5y ago
  Honeycomb in fact advertises (for a good reason) that they do have sensible platform firmware in place.
linux4kix 5y ago
socketed Arm SOCs are very unlikely because there are so many vendors making them. This works on the x86_64 side because you basically have Intel and AMD and they each have their own manufacturing ecosystem and target sockets. That is why we chose CEX7 since it is a standard that allows the motherboard to be customized to the use case.

wmf 5y ago

...until you can buy CPUs and motherboards independently Ampere Altra is socketed; too bad the motherboard alone is ~$5,000. standardized BIOS/hardware discoverability This is solved with SBSA/ServerReady/SystemReady.

p_l 5y ago
Honeycomb in fact advertises (for a good reason) that they do have sensible platform firmware in place.

linux4kix 5y ago

socketed Arm SOCs are very unlikely because there are so many vendors making them. This works on the x86_64 side because you basically have Intel and AMD and they each have their own manufacturing ecosystem and target sockets. That is why we chose CEX7 since it is a standard that allows the motherboard to be customized to the use case.