Supermicro is a pretty serious OEM, and if they actually manage to make ARM servers available (which means, in Supermicro parlance, as Global SKUs -boxes you ca

Supermicro is a pretty serious OEM, and if they actually manage to make ARM servers available (which means, in Supermicro parlance, as Global SKUs -boxes you can actually buy from distributors, not the wishy-washy 'contact us for details' stuff that is all over their website lately-), that would be a great win for the ecosystem. But I'm not exactly holding my breath. Gigabyte is another not-entirely-unserious OEM that previously did lots and lots of ARM press releases. And if you look at https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Enterprise/ARM-Server https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Enterprise/ARM-Server you may actually be impressed. But, trying to order one of these things is an entirely different matter. Getting pricing, let alone delivery dates, is just impossible, and if you look closer at aforementioned web page, you'll see that the 'show SKUs' button on many models is simply missing. And this has been going on even before the latest COVID-induced supply-chain crisis, by the way. Getting your hands on useful ARM server hardware has always been plain impossible (unless, I guess, your're AWS, Microsoft or Google). So, while I'm hopeful that this announcement will improve things, I'm not exactly optimistic...