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People care about performance per watt now. So they could compete. The real question is if they would support Linux. In our containerized world I can’t see thei
by flatiron 5y ago
People care about performance per watt now. So they could compete. The real question is if they would support Linux. In our containerized world I can’t see their servers getting super big running macOS
- greenknight 5y agoThe reason they dominate at PPW, is because they are on TSMCs 5nm process. No one else has made a cpu chip on this process yet. AMD are scheduled for later this year (they are currently using 7nm). It will be interesting to see the difference in performance and performance per watt, when both companies are on the same node.
- flatiron 5y agoArm I believe helps a bit as well.
- Sporktacular 5y agoNo, it's hetrogeneity, system integration, pipeline width and instruction set as well.
- ip26 5y agoWell, that’s a relief then, all any data center needs to run these days is Apple’s wide-ranging suite of in house services, such as applache, dovewin, pOSXgres, and SAPple.
- Sporktacular 5y agoIn the context of the server market of course you're right. But the idea that it's a given that AMD, Intel have similar PPW chips on the way still using the x86 architecture, is not correct. There's going to be more to it than node size.
- hajile 5y agoApple's older 7nm chips still handily beat out Zen on the same 7nm process in performance by watt (and it's not even close).