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Intel and AMD are unlikely allies in new x86 ecosystem advisory group – "we'll remain fierce competitors" (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

what do you think run your lemmy instances?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are ARM CPUs for servers and cloud computing. Of course X86 CPUs are far more common, at least for now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wake me up when ARM64 based cloud gets mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It already is. My company runs hundreds (possibly thousands) of ARM64-based instances right now. It's done great things for our cloud spend. We still have more x86 stuff than ARM because some applications just don't perform as well on ARM, but I can imagine that ratio will change as software gets more optimized (specifically the JDK, golang's compiler, and GCC/LLVM) and Ampere releases new systems with better single thread perf.

EDIT: Ampere, not Alterra. God damn tech company names.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's actually good news. Honestly, I'm hoping alternative archs would be in the game as well, but their options tend to be less accessible/affordable than the x86 counterpart.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Personally if I ever decide to host an instance I would prefer to do it on aarch64.