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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by Veedrac on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:35AM (#27222517)
It didn't seem to matter for Graviton2, TBH. ARM servers took off the moment they got fast enough to be worth converting software.

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1387061860965437440

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Re:Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs by 908B64B197 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:50PM (#27223641)
Amazon made Graviton affordable. You even get a discount compared to running x86 instances.

Pay-As-You-Go is great for trying out new architectures: it's easy to justify spinning a few instances to test whether something can work under ARM. And if it does then convert existing instances to save money. No (hard to get unless you are a large business) dev boards to purchase.

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