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Re:Power 9 May Dent X86 Servers: Alibaba, Google, Tencent Te... by marshray on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:02PM (#16652187)
> Why does it matter what enthusiasts use?

A. Many of the people who today specify datacenter hardware came into that career as enthusiasts (aka "early adopters") and are more comfortable recommending what they have experience with.

B. Enthusiasts bring the consumer volume that drives down production cost. This is a necessary driver of Moore's law.

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Re:Power 9 May Dent X86 Servers: Alibaba, Google, Tencent Te... by YawningAngel on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:26AM (#16656339)
I'm pretty sure that the major Datacenter operators run quantitative analyses on all possible candidate chips. There aren't that many.
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