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As someone who knows very little about CPUs but is aware of the energy savings that can be had on ARM, along with reports like this about speed and my personal
by drcongo 4y ago
As someone who knows very little about CPUs but is aware of the energy savings that can be had on ARM, along with reports like this about speed and my personal experience of my M1 Pro MBP which feels like I won't need a new computer for a decade, can anyone explain to me why we're not seeing much wider adoption of ARM on servers? I'm primarily thinking of the lack of ARM runners on GitHub and the almost unicorn-level rarity of ARM options on VPS hosts.
- prmoustache 4y agoMost VPS hosting services don't build their own hardware the way some of the giants can and rely on available offering from server manufacturers. Some even use consumer grade regular tower pc. The offering is growing but is still not as large as intel/amd one.
- hebrox 4y agoAlso lack of ARM runners on GitLab CI
- dboreham 4y agoI think this tells us that price/performance is not a critical factor to these vendors, most of the time. Perhaps because they have high margins, or because the CPU is not a significant part of their input costs?