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>ARM to IPO I'll be looking to pick up some shares as a long-term investment. I think ARM is one of the best things to happen to computing, and anything that

by na85 5y ago

>ARM to IPO I'll be looking to pick up some shares as a long-term investment. I think ARM is one of the best things to happen to computing, and anything that threatens the x86 monoculture/hegemony is a good thing in my view.

HHC-Hunter 5y ago
Honestly at this point, any big tech IPO is just a license to print money.
- nly 5y ago
  Might not be that way when they go public a year from now
- PedroBatista 5y ago
  The printer will start to run out of paper in a few months. The companies that have their own invoice printer will “win”, the others will suffer.
  - thrwyoilarticle 5y ago
    It's been months for years
    - PedroBatista 5y ago
      This time is based on inflation and the Fed increasing borrowing rates. Money managers already started to move their positions to stocks that fare well when things cool off.
    - baq 5y ago
      pay attention. it's already started.
      - thrwyoilarticle 5y ago
        ...as it did in Winter 2018 and Spring 2020!
- odiroot 5y ago
  Didn't work that well for Cloudflare, Github, Coinbase.
  - _blz2 5y ago
    Can you elaborate? All three seem to have done well.
    - odiroot 5y ago
      My bad. I meant Gitlab. Cloudflare reached 212 in November. Now it's down to 109. Gitlab reached 125 in November. Now down to 73. Coinbase was at 342 in November. Now it's 203.
boramalper 5y ago
> x86 monoculture/hegemony You mean the PC standard? I love ARM and the power-efficient mobile devices it enabled in the past two decades. That being said, I am deeply concerned with the lack of coherent hardware standards in ARM devices causing fragmentation and necessitate custom kernels, ROMs, and firmware. If it weren't for PC, Linux might have died long ago.
- sanxiyn 5y ago
  Well, ARM has SBSA standard, and it seems to work well.
  - ClumsyPilot 5y ago
    Coupd anyone explain how this works, are we any closer to the dream of being able to boot generic Ubuntu image on a random ARM device like you can with x86?
    - fredoralive 5y ago
      It's a standard specification for ARM server hardware / memory maps / firmware / etc, so operating systems should be interchangeable on it. Doesn't have a specifically consumer orientated equivalent though. Its a bit like the way you need more than an x86 CPU, you need an "IBM PC Compatible" system[1] with various buses and peripherals in the right memory locations, BIOS/UEFI firmware etc. for generic PC OSes to work. SBSA standardises something like an equivalent of an "IBM PC" for ARM Servers. [1] Or whatever you would call it nowadays, as legacy BIOS booting is fading away modern systems might not count as that.
    - sanxiyn 5y ago
      We aren't any closer, we are already there. Generic Ubuntu image already boots on all ARM SBSA devices, just like x86 PC. In fact, booting generic image on any device is explicitly a goal of SBSA standard.
jimbob45 5y ago
>x86 monoculture/hegemony There are more ARM cores in the world by multiple orders of magnitudes at this point. ARM is the bully now, not Intel anymore.

by na85 5y ago

HHC-Hunter 5y ago

Honestly at this point, any big tech IPO is just a license to print money.

nly 5y ago
Might not be that way when they go public a year from now
PedroBatista 5y ago
The printer will start to run out of paper in a few months. The companies that have their own invoice printer will “win”, the others will suffer.
- thrwyoilarticle 5y ago
  It's been months for years
  - PedroBatista 5y ago
    This time is based on inflation and the Fed increasing borrowing rates. Money managers already started to move their positions to stocks that fare well when things cool off.
  - baq 5y ago
    pay attention. it's already started.
    - thrwyoilarticle 5y ago
      ...as it did in Winter 2018 and Spring 2020!
odiroot 5y ago
Didn't work that well for Cloudflare, Github, Coinbase.
- _blz2 5y ago
  Can you elaborate? All three seem to have done well.
  - odiroot 5y ago
    My bad. I meant Gitlab. Cloudflare reached 212 in November. Now it's down to 109. Gitlab reached 125 in November. Now down to 73. Coinbase was at 342 in November. Now it's 203.

boramalper 5y ago

> x86 monoculture/hegemony You mean the PC standard? I love ARM and the power-efficient mobile devices it enabled in the past two decades. That being said, I am deeply concerned with the lack of coherent hardware standards in ARM devices causing fragmentation and necessitate custom kernels, ROMs, and firmware. If it weren't for PC, Linux might have died long ago.

sanxiyn 5y ago
Well, ARM has SBSA standard, and it seems to work well.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  Coupd anyone explain how this works, are we any closer to the dream of being able to boot generic Ubuntu image on a random ARM device like you can with x86?
  - fredoralive 5y ago
    It's a standard specification for ARM server hardware / memory maps / firmware / etc, so operating systems should be interchangeable on it. Doesn't have a specifically consumer orientated equivalent though. Its a bit like the way you need more than an x86 CPU, you need an "IBM PC Compatible" system[1] with various buses and peripherals in the right memory locations, BIOS/UEFI firmware etc. for generic PC OSes to work. SBSA standardises something like an equivalent of an "IBM PC" for ARM Servers. [1] Or whatever you would call it nowadays, as legacy BIOS booting is fading away modern systems might not count as that.
  - sanxiyn 5y ago
    We aren't any closer, we are already there. Generic Ubuntu image already boots on all ARM SBSA devices, just like x86 PC. In fact, booting generic image on any device is explicitly a goal of SBSA standard.

jimbob45 5y ago

>x86 monoculture/hegemony There are more ARM cores in the world by multiple orders of magnitudes at this point. ARM is the bully now, not Intel anymore.