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on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:13PM
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Ampere, a new chip company run by former Intel president Renee James, came out of stealth today with a brand-new highly efficient Arm-based server chip targeted at hyperscale data centers.
The company's first chip is a custom core Armv8-A 64-bit server operating at up to 3.3 GHz with 1TB of memory at a power envelope of 125 watts. Although James was not ready to share pricing, she promised that the chip would offer unsurpassed price/performance that would exceed any high performance computing chip out there.
The company has a couple of other products in the works as well, which it will unveil in the future.
Source: TechCrunch
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday February 08 2018, @01:26AM (3 children)
I am afraid I am the bearer of sad tidings:
What the CPU vendors regard as "a lot of orders" come most commonly from the type of people who hang out on Facebook because they can't figure out email.
Compared to them, the LUNUX neckbeards that care about security and openness are few and far-between.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday February 08 2018, @01:43AM (2 children)
Yes. Which is why we should all revolt.
I'm serious. You're correct about the market, but incorrect in that the Linux/BSD/PC tech crowd (all of us) now want this openness. In the past it was largely about principles, but security over the last 24 months has taught a lot of people through fire that security is now the 1st item. Our entire house of cards rests on perilous foundations. Virtual is no longer the impenetrable wall people once thought it was, and at every level (Joe Sixpack to Sony exec), people are learning that privacy might be important.
Some us are willing to do something about it, and pay something for it too. Purism is proving successful at finding a market for it. What will really open up the market is when more of us start refusing to service Windows 10/S, or refuse to service a proprietary board. That's taking it pretty far, but it can start slow just by replacing what the family and friends have. These days with security being what it is, I think you would find an easier time selling it.
Perhaps we should start by figuring out what reasonable kind of fabrication techniques we could use to bake our own chips. I remember an interesting conversation about what we would need to create, from scratch, in order to build a fully working computer again. Some people were saying that specially designed 3D makers could get us a working processor. Not a very fast one, but a working one.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday February 08 2018, @06:15AM
but a lathe can't make a lathe.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Thursday February 08 2018, @01:47PM
Well over 99% of us--that includes me and probably you--wouldn't be able to make a #2 pencil without large-scale research and collaboration.
Much less trained silicon.
Hear, hear. That's a movement I can get behind.