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Re:The Server At Peak X86 by pcwalton on Monday September 19, 2016 @01:27PM (#12533065)
> the way companies are gobbling big servers, we are not at peak Intel.

I think the point is that you're pretty much by definition at the peak when your market share is 99.3%. There's nowhere to go.

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Re:The Server At Peak X86 by AstroJetson on Monday September 19, 2016 @04:20PM (#12534358)
But the market keeps getting bigger and bigger. Unless we are using a different version of what "peak" means in this context.

"The hypothetical point in time when the global production of x86 equipment reaches its maximum rate, after which production will gradually decline." is the one that I'm using. As long as the demand is up there, then production will continue to grow.

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