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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:16AM (#27219046)
I think you mistake marketshare with mindshare. The devs can play with Raspberry Pies or similar, because why not, it runs AARCH64, don't it? The few devs who really need deep system level access are either paid, or get devkits. Meanwhile, 'the market' IS the hyperscalers. Nobody cares about the few nerds wetting themselves. They can go gaming, obsess over retrocomputing, toolkits, theming, /r/unixporn, whatever.
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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by imtringued on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:46AM (#27219230)
>Nobody cares about the few nerds wetting themselves. They can go gaming, obsess over retrocomputing, toolkits, theming, /r/unixporn, whatever.

The problem with this stance is that they can also keep using the non elitist platform, considering the elitist platform is inferior for many use cases.

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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:44AM (#27219527)
And thereby banging rocks against each other into eternity.

No sparks...

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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by selfhoster11 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:02AM (#27219304)
Nerd mindshare eventually converts to some marketshare. Adobe has been lax on their enforcement of their software among non-professional market segments for this exact reason.
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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by KingOfCoders on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:30AM (#27219146)
I do think getting it in the hand of more people, more people will run it and say "yes, works" and then take it into consideration when making architecture/purchasing decisions.

I've been a CTO for a decade+ and did try to get one the last time they made a splash.

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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by LargoLasskhyfv on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:36AM (#27219173)
That could be remedied by giving affordable or even free evalution accesss in 'the cloud'.
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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by petre on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:22AM (#27219396)
Remember alpha and sparc? Their parent companies targeted the enterprise market as well.
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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by tomc1985 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:07PM (#27228033)
Nerds wetting themselves built the world that business stole from them
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