Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS

Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by amluto on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:06PM (#21709894)

Also, Intel is bizarrely behind on PCIe. Historically, a data center machine with big expensive GPUs or other accelerators also had a couple of expensive Xeons in it. Right now, AMD has a much better offering even ignoring cost. I’m sure someone outside x86 (Amazon? ARM itself? POWER?) will jump in, too.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by StillBored on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:46AM (#21710260)

POWER has had PCIe gen4 for a couple years now too.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by shaklee3 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:55AM (#21710284)

I think they were intentionally behind. None of their products used/supported pcie4, so it was to their advantage to limit their competitors.

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by ksec on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:33AM (#21711303)

I would bet they were not, PCI-E 4.0 has always been on their Roadmap for 10nm+. The whole 10nm fiasco shifted all of their product roadmap from Modem, Chipset, Controller, to Custom Foundry off the wrong path.

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