Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by wmf on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:34PM
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All "commodity" servers use Intel processors so Intel isn't really losing anything. Juniper is just sticking their toe in and trying to look cool. Cisco is probably trying to sabotage it from the inside.
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Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by IBM on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:30PM
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Seems like Intel's margins are a good incentive for OCP members to design their own processors. Google has made some noise about that (but I guess that could be a bluff as well) [1].
[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/05/googles-making-chips-now-time-...
Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by gogopuppygogo on Monday October 31, 2016 @07:22PM
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Hardware is hard and expensive. I doubt there is enough industry support financially to commit to designing an open source CPU to be compatible with software designed for Intel CPU's. It's just the cost of doing business.
Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by wmf on Monday October 31, 2016 @09:20PM
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Compatibility isn't what it used to be; all Google software runs on x86, Power, and probably ARM. There are probably a dozen ARM server processors being designed right now, so either there's a huge bubble or the market is big enough.