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End User wrote:ARM will keep x86 pricing in check.
clone wrote:a strong AMD lowers prices, a dominant AMD does not.Hey guys, I've been thinking about AMD (as I always am) these past few minutes and I guess I've been wanting to throw this question for a while now: Does a strong AMD with a very competitive lineup really help the x86 industry have lower prices?
just brew it! wrote:End User wrote:ARM will keep x86 pricing in check.
Only on the low end,
clone wrote:ARM is the ant
End User wrote:clone wrote:ARM is the ant
The sales numbers don't suggest that. Roughly 700 million ARM based devices will be sold this year.
just brew it! wrote:End User wrote:clone wrote:ARM is the ant
The sales numbers don't suggest that. Roughly 700 million ARM based devices will be sold this year.
That actually supports the ant analogy!
End User wrote:I hope this works out well for AMD:
AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014
Airmantharp wrote:End User wrote:I hope this works out well for AMD:
AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014
Given AMD's prominent (though no longer dominant) position in the high-volume server market, it's hard to see them messing this up.
just brew it! wrote:Airmantharp wrote:End User wrote:I hope this works out well for AMD:
AMD Will Build 64-bit ARM based Opteron CPUs for Servers, Production in 2014
Given AMD's prominent (though no longer dominant) position in the high-volume server market, it's hard to see them messing this up.
I wish them luck. While they do still have a presence in the server space, I question whether it is enough of a presence any more to drive adoption of ARM. Intel certainly isn't going to push ARM for servers, given that they sold off their ARM division a few years ago.
Airmantharp wrote:Though I still want to see AMD (or Nvidia!) bolt an ARMv8 core or two to their high-end GPUs for on-board logic and so forth; maybe even a skeleton SoC that would allow for a hypervisor OS to be hosted on each card, then shove as many cards as will fit in a chassis, completely skipping all the other mess usually associated with building compute arrays.
clone wrote:look at the revenues.... arm is the ant, not ants, just an ant in comparison to Intel who not only dominates the desktop PC space but several other far more lucrative segments as well which is why they are the elephant.The sales numbers don't suggest that. Roughly 700 million ARM based devices will be sold this year.
clone wrote:a strong AMD lowers prices, a dominant AMD does not.