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I don’t know what the chances are, but over time it might happen. Economy of scale should not be underestimated. 30 years ago, there was a consensus x86 archit
by Const-me 4y ago
I don’t know what the chances are, but over time it might happen. Economy of scale should not be underestimated.
30 years ago, there was a consensus x86 architecture was only good for small computers, while servers need faster specially-designed processors like IBM Power or Dec Alpha. Then AMD64 was introduced, after a while they took server market too.
15 years ago, Intel was making specialized HPC co-processors called Xeon Phi. The chips were actually good, exceeded 1 TFlop of FP64, and weren’t terribly hard to program. I think it were consumer-grade graphic cards which made it obsolete. Despite much harder to program, the raw performance numbers were better, and cost efficiency in flops/$ was an order of magnitude better.