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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by gautamcgoel on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:47PM (#21709250)
I wish individual consumers could go out and buy these processors. Amazon really has little incentive to sell them - they are not primarily a chip manufacturing business, and anyways, why give away their hard-fought competitive advantage? - but damn, it would be cool to stick one of these in a workstation and watch it fly.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by wmf on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:59PM (#21709302)
I expect Ampere eMAG 2 to be pretty similar to Graviton2, so you can buy that instead. (Or pretend that you're going to buy it until you see the price.)
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by gautamcgoel on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:23PM (#21709420)
Oh, interesting. Is Graviton designed in collaboration with Ampere?
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by wmf on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:26PM (#21709435)
No, but one has 64 N1 cores and the other has 80 N1 cores, probably with similar memory controllers and PCIe as well.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by lsllc on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:40PM (#21727228)
You can get rack mount servers easily enough, the ThunderX2 processors are pretty damn fast!

https://www.cavium.com/news/gigabyte-announces-384-core-2u-s...

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by PeterCorless on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:10PM (#21714599)
Stay tuned and look into Nuvia.

https://nuviainc.com/

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by pnako on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:57PM (#21709596)
An ARM workstation is going to fly like a Cessna.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by wmf on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:42PM (#21710042)
So it'll be popular with rich hobbyists?
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