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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by kbenson on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:53PM (#21708449)
> Intel CPUs aren't cheap, but they're a fraction of the cost of a server.

Depending what what performance level you're looking at, they're a very large fraction of the server cost. Get a dual or quad socket board and buy the higher end CPUs and you might be looking at well over half the cost.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by StillBored on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:24PM (#21709965)
I think the point is that, if your buying a quad socket, the 2TB of ECC ram you stick in it will dwarf the core prices, or similarly its not hard to drop $50k on U.2 NVMe, etc.

Its possible to shift this argument different ways depending on the part of the market your looking at.

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