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The big hyperscale datacenter companies either design it themselves or partner with another large semiconductor company to help them design it for their particu
by lizknope 3y ago
The big hyperscale datacenter companies either design it themselves or partner with another large semiconductor company to help them design it for their particular needs.
These companies are not interested in selling to small companies that just want 1 to 100 machines. The only company that might is Ampere.
https://www.asacomputers.com/arm-servers.html https://www.asacomputers.com/arm-servers.html
Oracle is using the ARM server chip from Ampere but they would be buying tens of thousands or more and getting volume discount pricing. I've heard rumors that Ampere customized their chip for Oracle's needs.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/arm/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/arm/
Qualcomm was designing an ARM server chip about 8 years ago but killed the project. Most of those engineers went to Microsoft and now ARM itself.
I've heard stories about Chinese hyperscale datacenters wanting to design their own ARM servers but I haven't heard anything in a while.