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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by aparashk on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:30AM (#25122983)
What is the x64 on ARM opportunity in a bit more detail? What would drive a billion dollar valuation for such a business?

I would have thought that anything of lasting interest would be available in source code and thus ported to run natively on ARM...

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by offtop5 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:37AM (#25124953)
Because years , if not decades of legacy server code could be ran on Arm without re-writing anything.

An EC2 rival could run the same processes using 30% of the power. Plus as ARM tends to run on much smaller devices, you could theoretically save tons of physical space with data centers.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by aparashk on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:10PM (#25131605)
Fascinating, so you are saying if a Rosetta2 like software can be made for Graviton or X1, that’d be an instant hit?
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker by offtop5 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @08:41PM (#25145256)
Assuming you could also have the same reliability, I'd believe you could get the cost way down. Who wouldn't want to operate their service for half price
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