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On 1/15/25 4:10 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>> ARM and its major holder are now trying to buy
>> AmpereComputing - a maker of high-efficiency
>> high-speed "cloud interface" chips. It's
>> currently owned by Oracle. These chips are
>> intended for high-volume 'cloud' servers and
>> promise to save a lot of kilowatts and
>> nanoseconds over the competitors.
>>
>> https://amperecomputing.com/
>>
>> NOT likely to find 'em soldered to yer
>> Raspberry Pi however ....
> 
> Fascinating how Oracle still has a toe hold or two in the HW business. I 
> remember in my youth, when I had to study oracle license agreements, and 
> found the "CPU factor" that was developed in such a way as to promote 
> sparc servers.


   Smart corps have a toe or two in most everything.
   As in Nature - falling into a niche is Darwinian
   Doom.


> I recently had a look at arm-cpus to see if they would help me lower the 
> cost of software defined storage compute clusters, but sadly they are 
> way too high core, and too expensive to make any difference at all 
> compared with AMD cpus, so even though I could have used arm, in the 
> end, it was pointless. =/ I wish they produced cheap arm-cpu:s.

   To get 'cheap' they need a higher-volume market. ARM
   does have its 'niche', but it's not wide enough to
   sell chips at AMD/Intel prices. They're more energy-
   efficient, but these days the REAL energy goes into
   zillions of Nvidia chips. I can see ARM being a player
   in the 'portable' market for awhile though. Seems even
   it is looking to diversify however ... Big Cloud may
   complement 'AI'.