yeah if you're running a node backend, the changes are cosmetic at best (unless you're running chrome to generate pdfs or whatever). easiest 20% saved ever. if I were Intel or AMD I would be very afraid of this... years ago.
Re:Bought an Ampere Altra System
by imtringued on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:46AM
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I was scared of ARM taking over in 2017 (e.g. Windows being locked down to just the Microsoft store) and 8 years later literally nothing happened.
Re:Bought an Ampere Altra System
by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:40AM
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I would not call Windows RT "literally nothing". It failed, but it clearly was an attempt to lock things down.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/:
“Bernstein's report estimates that Graviton represented about 20 percent of AWS CPU instances by mid-2022“
And that’s three years ago. Graviton instances are cheaper than (more or less) equivalent x86 ones on AWS, so I think it’s a safe bet that number has gone up since.