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A72 is nice, but to really compete in the server market I think they need another product. One that drops the performance/watt metric for the "as fast as it goe
by StillBored 12y ago
A72 is nice, but to really compete in the server market I think they need another product. One that drops the performance/watt metric for the "as fast as it goes" metric. That is because while a lot of people are going to want efficient chips, if ARM really takes off there will definitely be people who want to share a binary with a CPU that is screaming fast.
- duaneb 12y ago> A72 is nice, but to really compete in the server market I think they need another product. One that drops the performance/watt metric for the "as fast as it goes" metric. That seems like vertical scaling instead of horizontal scaling. I'm not sure how much money there is in the former market—maybe look at mainframe markets. Horizontal scaling is a much easier sell, especially for data centers. I will put money on the fact that Facebook will eventually invest heavily in this architecture design.
- tw04 12y agoThey will literally NEVER beat Intel at the speed game in servers and they know it. If you want blazing fast, you've already got a market leader that's held the crown almost their entire existence.
- StillBored 12y ago? I'm not sure that is accurate. Before the PPRO, there were the RISC vendors, which overwhelmingly were significantly faster. In the early 2000's there was AMD, for about 5 years was faster in nearly every regard. Still today, you have things like the POWER 8, which while not necessarily faster for every workload definitely can beat Intel's offerings for certain workloads. So at the moment it seems to be similar to the early 80's when it wasn't clear cut who had the fastest CPU because it depended on workload. Hence my expectation that ARM will get there, if they put in the effort.