By: No (no.delete@this.thanks.com), January 29, 2013 3:32 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on January 29, 2013 1:52 pm wrote:
> Most phone vendors have no manufacturing, and little IP that you'd re-use with a server. They also aren't likely
> to be much cheaper than a $200 Intel chip. I think the real issue is that they may come in with a more tightly
> integrated platform that lowers total cost. But there isn't a huge amount of room to move down...
Why do you think 'phone vendors' would be involved? Think about who else in the industry might have being doing much higher throughout computing than is done in general purpose computers, hasn't been using x86 for the past couple of decades and has lots of fabric IP to reuse.
> Most phone vendors have no manufacturing, and little IP that you'd re-use with a server. They also aren't likely
> to be much cheaper than a $200 Intel chip. I think the real issue is that they may come in with a more tightly
> integrated platform that lowers total cost. But there isn't a huge amount of room to move down...
Why do you think 'phone vendors' would be involved? Think about who else in the industry might have being doing much higher throughout computing than is done in general purpose computers, hasn't been using x86 for the past couple of decades and has lots of fabric IP to reuse.
