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That's a good point.. I wonder how much network effect this has on substantiating ARM in server space too. Vendors have been trying that since the early twenty
by kev009 2y ago
That's a good point.. I wonder how much network effect this has on substantiating ARM in server space too. Vendors have been trying that since the early twenty-teens and it was not going anywhere fast until Apple shipped the M1. I don't think it is a direct cause->correlation, but the existence of high powered dev machines running clang and gcc certainly lowers a lot of frictions even in higher level languages like Go.
- dagmx 2y agoAnecdotally, a lot of software in the graphics space didn’t have arm availability till after the M series were released. A lot of the windows/linux arm ports of libraries didn’t exist till after despite having hardware available earlier. My work on Linux clusters was dramatically improved. Having even one vendor prove that arm is worth paying attention to is the tide that lifts the ships of all other vendors in the arm space .
- sofixa 2y agoAWS' Graviton line was released in 2018 to much fanfare, and there was a lot of content about all the cost savings per performance it brings immediately. Ampere were founded in 2017, and in early 2020 announced partnerships with Oracle for ARM based servers M1 came out in November 2020. A lot of Linux tools and systems and applications became available thanks to Raspberry Pis becoming very popular with hobbyists, and then Graviton pushing more "enterprise" stuff. For more user facing GUI-powered applications, it lagged, and still lags, but there Apple and Microsoft's ARM efforts were the main driving force.