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Long term I wonder how healthy x86 is as a whole. It seems like only a matter of time before someone puts out risc-v aws/gcp/azure instances that compete, or pu
by bfrog 2y ago
Long term I wonder how healthy x86 is as a whole. It seems like only a matter of time before someone puts out risc-v aws/gcp/azure instances that compete, or puts out a laptop part on a chromebook that kills it.
The only thing holding back the wave is windows... and microsoft themselves seem somewhat open to the idea of not using x86 anymore.
- bayindirh 2y agoOracle is already giving tons of ARM processors (and RAM for that matter) in their free tier, and the performance is not bad for CRUD applications, docker, and a generalist dark server (i.e. a utility box for a sysadmin). However, for the top tier of computation, vectorization, memory bandwidth and PCIe lanes are still important.