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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:44AM (#21711609)
I am gathering that it's a chip, a CPU chip, seem to be ARM architecture not intel x86; and is an important chip or will be due to this? I don't know why though.
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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by PeterCorless on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:11PM (#21714616)
Here's our take. This is big.

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-...

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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:30AM (#21720091)
I'm still reading between the lines here, which is frustrating and doesn't reflect well on the journalism; So you say:

"AWS announced in late 2018 the EC2 A1 instances, featuring their own AWS-manufactured Arm silicon"

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"AWS during its annual re:Invent conference announced the availability of their new class of Arm-based servers, the M6g and M6gd instances among others, based on the Graviton2 processor."

So the Graviton2 is made by Amazon as well? Under licence from ARM, I mean, like other ARM design chips.

_edit_ Looks like it, yes. Here is the context necessary to understand the story:

https://www.wired.com/story/new-amazon-chips-cloud-computing...

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/amazon-amzn-to-release-new-s...

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