By: Ricardo B (ricardo.b.delete@this.xxxxx.xx), August 29, 2014 9:14 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Maynard,
again, wrong market.
The market you're describing does not pay for state of the art performance nor state of the art performance/watt.
For this market, you can easily get enough performance at low enough power for cheap each enough not to care too much.
It cares for one thing only: price, price and price.
The market you're describing has long been dominated by cheap non-state of the art ARM/MIPS chips like the Marvell Armada and cheap non-state of the art x86 chips.
In fact, as Aaron pointed out, x86 is gaining market here, not losing.
The upcoming ARM server chips are aiming for the data center market.
Potential clients have lots of servers, which draw lots of power and need lots of physical space and cooling -- all of which hit their bottom line very seriously.
This market is willing to pay for state of the art performance/watt.
again, wrong market.
The market you're describing does not pay for state of the art performance nor state of the art performance/watt.
For this market, you can easily get enough performance at low enough power for cheap each enough not to care too much.
It cares for one thing only: price, price and price.
The market you're describing has long been dominated by cheap non-state of the art ARM/MIPS chips like the Marvell Armada and cheap non-state of the art x86 chips.
In fact, as Aaron pointed out, x86 is gaining market here, not losing.
The upcoming ARM server chips are aiming for the data center market.
Potential clients have lots of servers, which draw lots of power and need lots of physical space and cooling -- all of which hit their bottom line very seriously.
This market is willing to pay for state of the art performance/watt.
