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They're all working on their own chips because there isn't a viable server ARM chip. I suspect they'd happily buy something like an M1 off-the-self it if existe
by dehrmann 5y ago
They're all working on their own chips because there isn't a viable server ARM chip. I suspect they'd happily buy something like an M1 off-the-self it if existed. Even if the demand for SoCs goes up, Intel could play that market, too. And they have fabs that could compete with TSMC. The questions are mainly can they ramp up fab tech, ramp up CPU tech, and are they open to more custom hardware.
- lowbloodsugar 5y ago> They're all working on their own chips because there isn't a viable server ARM chip. AWS Graviton 2 ARM instances offer better performance/price than their intel instances. Does that qualify as viable? Or do you mean AWS has to make their own because there isn't one "off the shelf"?
- dehrmann 5y ago> Or do you mean AWS has to make their own because there isn't one "off the shelf"? This was what I meant. In this case, AWS is selling general-purpose compute, so there's minimal iDevice full stack synergy, and they're just looking for performance, power use, and total cost.
- klelatti 5y agoYou do know that AWS Graviton is based on Arm Neoverse cores which is absolutely a viable Arm server core.