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I’m surprised those aren’t being shifted to much cheaper ARM chips.
by bushbaba 4y ago
I’m surprised those aren’t being shifted to much cheaper ARM chips.
- dboreham 4y agoPerhaps they're not cheaper.
- philistine 4y agoI bet they will in due time. They have to recompile their whole stack to ARM, which probably isn't easy, but ARM is eating the world. It's only a matter of time.
- hulitu 4y agoThat's what they said about Itanium too. /s
- pfdietz 4y agoI think that's clearly not an apt analogy.
- otabdeveloper4 4y agoThe 80-core ARM servers Hetzner provides are great. A nice midpoint between a slower general-purpose x86_64 server and an expensive and brittle GPU server. I can easily see datacenters with these things in the future.
- Sakos 4y agoProbably a question of performance. NAS and IoT appliances have performance requirements too.
- MikusR 4y agoMajority of consumer nases are running the cheapest oldest arm and mips cpus they can find.
- creshal 4y agoLow-end NASes have been using ARM for a long time. The higher end x86 NASes are advertised closer to "home datacentre in a box" solutions that offer VM/container runtimes and third party software markets. So far, x86 is significantly more user friendly and performant for these use cases: the "desktop-ish performance for desktop-ish prices" range doesn't really have many hardware options (Apple certainly won't sell theirs to OEMs, and the Snapdragon 8c is a bit on the low end, and the real data centre ARM many-core monsters are too big); and the software offerings aren't quite as user friendly either.