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I looked around the room I'm in just now, and I see a M1-based MacBook Pro, an iPhone XS, an iPad Pro, an iPhone 12, and a Sony OLED TV which most likely uses a
by maxharris 5y ago
I looked around the room I'm in just now, and I see a M1-based MacBook Pro, an iPhone XS, an iPad Pro, an iPhone 12, and a Sony OLED TV which most likely uses an ARM core.
The only exception is my wife's work laptop, an x86 MacBook Pro. (It'll be replaced by an ARM-based one in a year or two.)
It's quite safe to say that x86 is dead.
- anaisbetts 5y agoYou just sent this message to a whole bunch of servers that are almost certainly running x86-64 and that side is unlikely to change for the near future, I'm pretty sure that 64-bit Intel still has some life in it
- bdcravens 5y agoPublic clouds are increasing their usage of ARM all the time. I don't think anyone will ditch Intel processors soon (the same way that for those outside our space, they're still buying Intel laptops), but I think we will only see that usage grow in the datacenter. https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/arm/its-happening-arm-server-cpus-are-coming-data-center https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/arm/its-happening-arm-se...
- Turing_Machine 5y agoDisagree. Server hardware usually gets rotated on a fairly aggressive schedule, and power consumption absolutely matters for server farms.
- cassianoleal 5y ago> power consumption absolutely matters for server farms And heat, which makes cooling cheaper, has a good chance at reducing noise in the datacentre, etc.
- rdbell 5y agoFWIW my next project on AWS will almost certainly be using graviton instances.
- stefan_ 5y agoI count a lot of Apple chips, not ARM. Some of them might still run a mostly ARMv8 compatible instruction set, but I'm sure that is going to change (as it already is). You will all want your x64 back soon enough..
- giomasce 5y agoThere might be some sampling bias here.