Re:Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers
by firmnoodle on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:18PM
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Totally agree. While it's hard to get hands on a physical box, you can always get bare metal Ampere servers from the Packet guys aka equinixmetal.com. They have them in a few regions.
Re:Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers
by jasoneckert on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:40PM
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Ditto for trying to get an Ampere-based HP ProLiant RL Gen11. After trying to get an actual quote from HP for a month, we gave up thinking that the product was vapourware.
Re:Supermicro Throws Its Weight Behind Arm Servers
by AlexThrowAway on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @08:36PM
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>But, trying to order one of these things is an entirely different matter. Getting pricing, let alone delivery dates, is just impossible
Could be a long wait.
Nuvia promised silicon in mid 2022. It's now January 2023 and no updates from Qualcomm on when they're going to start sampling to OEMs.
But I'm not exactly holding my breath. Gigabyte is another not-entirely-unserious OEM that previously did lots and lots of ARM press releases. And if you look at https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Enterprise/ARM-Server you may actually be impressed.
But, trying to order one of these things is an entirely different matter. Getting pricing, let alone delivery dates, is just impossible, and if you look closer at aforementioned web page, you'll see that the 'show SKUs' button on many models is simply missing.
And this has been going on even before the latest COVID-induced supply-chain crisis, by the way. Getting your hands on useful ARM server hardware has always been plain impossible (unless, I guess, your're AWS, Microsoft or Google). So, while I'm hopeful that this announcement will improve things, I'm not exactly optimistic...