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Expanding the Tau VM family with Arm-based processors
- ceeplusplus 4y agoGoogle is late to the game on this one. AWS already has Graviton3 / Neoverse V1 based VMs rolling out which are substantially faster than Neoverse N1.
- JoshTriplett 4y agoI'm glad to see this, but I'm disappointed that this tops out at 48 vCPUs. The equivalent from Amazon has 64, and Altra processors support up to 128.
- skybrian 4y agoAmpere Computing seems to be a "fabless" semiconductor company. I wonder where the chips are manufactured?
- bpye 4y agoProbably TSMC - https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-review-pushing-it-to-128-cores-per-socket https://www.anandtech.com/show/16979/the-ampere-altra-max-re...
- remram 4y agoAre those a lot cheaper? A cursory look at the pricing page puts them within 25% of x86_64 hardware. People tend to cite convenience as the number 1 reason to use the cloud, costing more money in renting fees but less money on dev&ops staff man-hours. Is it really worth adding the complexity of multiarch on the staff to get some of that cloud money back?