By: Jukka Larja (roskakori2006.delete@this.gmail.com), February 23, 2021 8:12 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on February 23, 2021 5:35 am wrote:
> I certainly wondered what on earth AMD were up to when they made an ARM server chip. There is certainly no advantage
> to them being a leader in that market, best push x86 for the moment, and they can always be top class as a follower
> in the future. The place I thought they might have a good chance with ARM though is in games machines, it probably
> isn't a huge money spinner but it certainy would be a nice market to be the go to leader in.
AMD has gotten their x86 chips to last two-and-half generations of Playstations and Xboxes. Hard to see they could make more money with ARM based chips.
Maybe you were thinking about some mobile gaming consoles and the edge ARM CPU could have there? Considering nearly everyone is already carrying a small games machine (smart phone) around all the time, it's hard to see much money can be made there. Only one to ever succeed there is Nintendo, and it's not because they have great hardware. They aren't going to pay large sums for 20, 50 or 100 % more CPU performance, as long as there are good enough SoCs available for less.
-JLarja
> I certainly wondered what on earth AMD were up to when they made an ARM server chip. There is certainly no advantage
> to them being a leader in that market, best push x86 for the moment, and they can always be top class as a follower
> in the future. The place I thought they might have a good chance with ARM though is in games machines, it probably
> isn't a huge money spinner but it certainy would be a nice market to be the go to leader in.
AMD has gotten their x86 chips to last two-and-half generations of Playstations and Xboxes. Hard to see they could make more money with ARM based chips.
Maybe you were thinking about some mobile gaming consoles and the edge ARM CPU could have there? Considering nearly everyone is already carrying a small games machine (smart phone) around all the time, it's hard to see much money can be made there. Only one to ever succeed there is Nintendo, and it's not because they have great hardware. They aren't going to pay large sums for 20, 50 or 100 % more CPU performance, as long as there are good enough SoCs available for less.
-JLarja
