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> Their customers would run to Intel. Data centers and hosting companies are probably the biggest customers buying AMD CPUs, no? If those companies could lowe
by pier25 1y ago
> Their customers would run to Intel.
Data centers and hosting companies are probably the biggest customers buying AMD CPUs, no?
If those companies could lower their energy and cooling costs that could be a strong incentive to offer ARM servers.
- high_na_euv 1y agoWhat kind of difference we are talking about? 1% 3% 6% 10% 30%?
- pier25 1y agoNo idea but it should be significant. AFAIK cooling and energy are the biggest data center costs.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoAMD servers are already below 3 watts per core. ARM doesn't actually confer any power advantage. Most ARM processors use less power because they're slower. Apple has a slight advantage because they use TSMC's latest process nodes, but it isn't very large and it isn't because of the ISA.
- pier25 1y agoI was looking at EPYC chips from 2-3 years ago and those do consume more like 8-10W per core but you're right. The latest EPYC 9005 are actually quite efficient.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoEPYC 7702(P) is only slightly more than 3W/core (it's 3.125) and that's from 2019. But the newer ones use even less and they're faster.