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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by jiggawatts on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:52PM (#21709269)
> With a move to more distributed programming models the network is often in the critical path now, making cpu performance less relevant for many workloads

Oddly, Intel ought to have an edge here, because they have been selling chips with embedded 100 Gbps Ethernet controllers on-die.

However, I've never seen such a beast in data centre, I suspect they've "reserved" this feature for HPC workloads only.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by wmf on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:57PM (#21709294)
That was 100G Omni-Path (not Ethernet compatible) which has been subsequently canceled, I guess due to lack of demand. Intel's 100G Ethernet NICs were years behind other vendors due to the 10 nm fiasco.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by shaklee3 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:53AM (#21710277)
Intel had always said they were behind because they wanted to be. In other words, they didn't think 100G was on the rise. I tend to believe them since nic asics are much easier to make than an x86 processor.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by late2part on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:47AM (#21711853)
It's a good tenant of personal responsibility to say that one's owns actions are the result of one's own choices.

So by that logic, I suppose they wanted to be? :-)

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