Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

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.

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

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 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'.

This is the truth! I've seen it in a few laptops. But I don't know if they are energy efficient enough to make a huge difference. I get about 14 hours or so from my 1.5 year old laptop. If arm would bump that to 25 I'd seriously consider one! But last time I had a look, 1.5 years ago, the battery time on arm laptops was far from impressive. =/