> You can run on ARM servers in production. They're even cheaper than x86 servers. (Though also slower, at least AWS's version.)
Where can I buy ARM server comparable with x86 server on performance? I'm not interested with clouds, I want bare metal server. I'm not aware of any server brand like HP or Dell producing ARM servers. I'm also not aware of any CPU manufacturer producing computer desktops with ARM comparable with x86, outside of Apple macs. I'm not convinced that ARM is the future. For me the future is both architectures co-existing.
> I'm not interested with clouds, I want bare metal server.
You can have both.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-bare-metal-ar...
Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:11PM
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I promise that is not what 90% of people mean when they say they want bare metal, and not what 99% of people mean when they say they don't want "cloud"; it's still AWS's machine.
Honestly, if they mean "owned machine in colo" they should say that rather than "bare metal". Those are orthogonal concepts. (You can have VM instances on a private cloud on owned machines as well)
If you're actually interested in buying servers this is not a pedantic difference.
Realistically, ARM is probably the future, and just needs something to push society in the direction of the future. A lot of people use Macs, so this forces people to become interested in switching, which has some value. Remember when the original iMac had USB instead of ADB ports? Everyone was mad about it. But USB was the future -- you can plug that iMac's mouse into pretty much any computer you have and it still works.
(I've been wanting an ARM desktop for a while, but it seems there is trouble standardizing something like BIOS/UEFI, and the CPUs you can buy are more expensive and slower than x86 alternatives. I'm also not sure if anyone ever decided what the standard "ARM" configuration looks like... binary calling conventions, endianness, supported instructions? But, if Apple can make a competitive ARM chip, so can others, and the standards will follow. We'll see!)