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But is ARM necessarily that more efficient or is it just cheaper than x86 because Amazon designed it inhouse and doesn't need to pay AMD/Intel (who have high ma
by qwytw 3y ago
But is ARM necessarily that more efficient or is it just cheaper than x86 because Amazon designed it inhouse and doesn't need to pay AMD/Intel (who have high margins)?
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoThere's a reason it took over the smartphone industry decade before AWS started using them. Arm on the server isn't a radical idea and been proposed for a long time. Smartphones and servers share a lot of similar requirements like especially performance per watt
- qwytw 3y ago> There's a reason it took over the smartphone industry Intel wasn't interested in "low-margin" markets and was generally incompetent?
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoWell, yeah, no way I'm debating that. Weird thing is they had StrongArm in the early 2000s.
- qbasic_forever 3y agoWeb workloads aren't super CPU intensive on their own. You take some bytes from the network, parse them, make some calls to services on an internal network, then serialize and send network bytes. Most of that workload is waiting for the network bytes to come and go. For that kind of work it's all about power efficiency and Amazon is able to specifically design their gravitons to have just enough cache, CPU speed, management components, etc. to get the job done and nothing more. A bog standard Intel CPU is designed for any and every workload so it's going to be idling and wasting power on components and transistors you never use or care about.
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