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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by kllrnohj on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:59PM (#30518433)
ARM still isn't really competing against Intel/AMD. It took an entirely new form factory that radically changed the consumer landscape for ARM to get a foothold at all. What is RISC-V's smartphone explosion?

ARM has so far, outside of Apple and very limited cloud experiements (and some very badly received laptop experiments), not really put a dent in Intel/AMD's markets. But all of this was fueled by the once-in-a-generation explosion that gave ARM untold increases in adoption "for free". RISC-V has seemingly nothing similar, and RISC-V itself certainly isn't manufacturing any such radical shift.

Re:RISC-V is succeeding by burnoutgal on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:21PM (#30518742)
Graviton2 is generally available and depending on your codebase and dependencies can be a drop-in replacement. I was amazed at the breadth of ARM docker images that exist for common use cases.
Re:RISC-V is succeeding by mekster on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:49PM (#30523423)
Umm, ARM has the share in the phone market where Intel/ AMD couldn't make a dent...

It's a matter of time other shares will be eaten when x86 is having hard time innovating over its decades old design.

More battery time for consumers laptop and less electricity bill for cloud vendors are something very attractive.

Re:RISC-V is succeeding by kllrnohj on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @09:04AM (#30527389)
> Umm, ARM has the share in the phone market where Intel/ AMD couldn't make a dent...

Yes, obviously, which I mentioned repeatedly. For ARM to be successful outside of embedded it took an entirely new category of device to appear. What's RISC-V's entirely new category of device where it happens to be uniquely positioned?

> It's a matter of time other shares will be eaten when x86 is having hard time innovating over its decades old design.

Based off of what? The only ARM CPU that isn't thoroughly outclassed by AMD & Intel's x86 CPUs is Apple's, and Apple sure isn't licensing that to anyone. And so far every time ARM has tried to enter the domain of x86 it's been either absolutely embarrassingly bad (laptops) or mediocre at best and only for the very latest generation at that (servers)

> less electricity bill for cloud vendors

ARM server CPUs have the ~same 250W TDPs of Intel & AMD server CPUs. There's no power savings to be had here.