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Cloudflare switching to ARM Server, Intel "free" by Q4.

It was probably obvious, but until now there were not many widely publicized and detailled analysis were an Arm server was that competitive, even on workloads that were supposed to be Arm friendly.
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- Post #34
- Apr 16, 2018
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Does anyone think we'll see ARM replace x86 in desktops?

Very interesting, thanks for sharing this. From a CPU architecture point of view, the advantage of a reasonably simple ISA is also that it gives you the ability to try new things more easily and validate them. Either you can put the same amount of new ideas faster or for less money (eg...
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- Post #112
- Feb 23, 2016
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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HiSilicon Kirin 950 GeekBench

I can give a few name of people who "works in hardware in Silicon Valley" who I would not trust to give judgement on anything (not even specifically on SoCs ():))
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- Post #23
- Nov 27, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Jim Keller joins Samsung

Very true as well, a very talented engineer can do a massive and long lasting difference, but mostly if he can hire and influence a good team around him, which takes time and money, I am not sure he had any of these at AMD, there is a better chance he gets them at Samsung though.
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- Post #25
- Oct 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Q] ARM vs x86 in consumer space in 10 years

Not the first time we disagree on almost everything :D Of course it's not easy, but the incentive and the business case for it is very different from what it was 10 years ago. Maybe there is more performance left on the table on the CPU design on the high performance side, but the current...
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- Post #83
- Oct 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Q] ARM vs x86 in consumer space in 10 years

The incentive was not as strong, for a long time it was not necessary as you would get a decent performance boost from the CPU itself, then from going to multiple cores. These 2 trends have reached their limits, so there has to be new solutions, even if it is painful. You can also stay still and...
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- Post #78
- Oct 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Q] ARM vs x86 in consumer space in 10 years

You are using present tense, this is not the topic! Of course 5 years to have a big shift like this is short, but things are clearly moving towards more dedicated logic, mostly because the general purpose CPU rate of improvement has been really low compared to what it used to be. The point is...
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- Post #72
- Oct 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Jim Keller joins Samsung

:thumbsup: If you want a public example of what a good base and design principles from the start can give you, you can look at open-source SW projects as well. The most successful projects will always involve 100s or 1000s of people in the end, but they have been created and put into the right...
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- Post #17
- Oct 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Q] ARM vs x86 in consumer space in 10 years

Looking at ARM's results: http://www.design-reuse.com/news/38504/arm-q3-2015-financial-results.html it does not seem that obvious: Cortex-A only accounts for 17% of the unit shipment, obviously it has a much higher ASP, but it is still a balanced product portfolio, there are many places that are...
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- Post #69
- Oct 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A9X the new mobile SoC king

Of course if you are literraly starting your design "from scratch", but noone does that anymore (because it would take years and mountains of cash for an very uncertain result), you take an existing design, tweak it and sometime switch it to a different ISA. This is what Nvidia did with Denver...
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- Post #287
- Sep 24, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A9X the new mobile SoC king

No, that's called marketing: - QC choose not to say ARM because they are ARM customers as well as competitors - Apple, not sure what their official line is, but basically it is irrelevant for their marketing target - Applied Micro or Broadcom very happily say that their custom core is an ARM...
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- Post #285
- Sep 24, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A9X the new mobile SoC king

Do you really think ARM only gives there architecture licensees the ARM architecture reference manual and nothing else? Put it the other way, do you think ARM would let anyone put on the market an "ARM" cpu that has not even been through a validation that proves it can run ARM code properly...
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- Post #278
- Sep 24, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A9X the new mobile SoC king

I wonder if you actually believe what you are saying or are trolling? It is impossible for anyone today to license the x86 ISA and design a new CPU with it, not only for legal reasons, but also technical reasons. Basically it is too complex to do it from scratch without infringing Intel...
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- Post #272
- Sep 23, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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The Intel Atom Thread

I am struggling to understand how a different of a few $ on the SoC price can lead to a 20$ difference on the retail price, especially from no-name brands with razor-thin margins. Basically there can be 4 explanations: 1. Intel has a much better integration in the SoC, so less components all...
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- Post #3,925
- May 13, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Hexus] ARM compares A72 vs Intel Broadwell-Y

I have always wondered what is included and what's not in these estimations, do you have a source that explains it? From this description: http://press.ihs.com/press-release/technology/samsung-galaxy-s6-edge-pricier-build-cheaper-buy-comparable-apple-iphone-6- It is hard to tell, but I would...
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- Post #76
- May 5, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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