Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
by scns on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:18AM
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Amazon have their own ARM server chips out since some time. They are competitive: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?
by CountSessine on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:28PM
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I know - which is why this is all so interesting.
But my point stands - 3 years ago Microsoft was talking about deploying arm64 to Azure, and those plans were cancelled with Zen 2. Given that GCP will be gone by 2023, that leaves half of the cloud titans with arm64, and the other half without. Will AMZN sell Annapurna chips to other services? My guess is they won't.
Someone has to make arm64 chips for other data centers and cloud providers, and Cavium/Marvell and Ampere have failed trying. It's a huge investment for an uncertain payoff. Annapurna had buy-in from the rest of Amazon.