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What can graviton do that, e.g. POWER cannot?
by stackghost 2y ago
What can graviton do that, e.g. POWER cannot?
- barkingcat 2y agoIt's not what POWER cannot, but about what graviton can CUT OUT and SPECIALIZE in while still being able to do what AWS wants. POWER from this perspective, does way too much. It's too much chip for AWS's needs, and a big waste of money. That's what optimization means! You get the smallest/ simplest/cheapest thing that does exactly what you want, and ignore the big bad "do everything" chips that go for megabucks. Then you can devote chip transistor count toward the instructions you want, and ditch all the dead weight that comes with a traditional chip like power, that tries to make a balanced general purpose cpu. This results in a chip that isn't good for anything but the specific need, but it's super cost effective and higher performing.
- Sakos 2y agoAlso likely far more power and heat efficient.
- my123 2y agoPower is not cost-competitive at all to mainstream x86 chips. And stopped being so quite a long time ago.