By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), October 15, 2018 2:19 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on October 14, 2018 9:25 pm wrote:
> AM (myname4rwt.delete@this.jee-male.com) on October 14, 2018 8:50 am wrote:
> >
> > This is the case where there's a conflict of short-term and long-term goals, and it can have a huge effect
> > on price, as long as it's a point of negotiations -- inertial forces wrt ISA are huge for most consumers,
> > with CF being a white raven (they're never going to suffer from ISA lock-in I think). Intel's long term
> > goals include preventing big players from switching away, as such move of a successful company will slowly
> > but surely influence many others; had Intel not started tweaking chips for hyperscalers years ago, I think
> > they'd long migrated off to more space- and power-efficient options designed to their specs. And even that
> > is no longer enough apparently for MS -- they're going to deploy ARM servers in Azure.
>
> How many ARM servers do you think MS will deploy and when?
>
Do you know the answer or at least heard the rumors?
> AM (myname4rwt.delete@this.jee-male.com) on October 14, 2018 8:50 am wrote:
> >
> > This is the case where there's a conflict of short-term and long-term goals, and it can have a huge effect
> > on price, as long as it's a point of negotiations -- inertial forces wrt ISA are huge for most consumers,
> > with CF being a white raven (they're never going to suffer from ISA lock-in I think). Intel's long term
> > goals include preventing big players from switching away, as such move of a successful company will slowly
> > but surely influence many others; had Intel not started tweaking chips for hyperscalers years ago, I think
> > they'd long migrated off to more space- and power-efficient options designed to their specs. And even that
> > is no longer enough apparently for MS -- they're going to deploy ARM servers in Azure.
>
> How many ARM servers do you think MS will deploy and when?
>
Do you know the answer or at least heard the rumors?
