Re: Advice on system purchase
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:56:25 +0100
Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> On 30/10/12 05:02, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
...
> > It's simple economics: If one could make a decent amount of profit
> > pushing an ARM based desktop CPU into the market, they'd do it. They
> > haven't done it, nor will do it, because there's no money to be made,
> > only losses, as history has shown us. Both IBM/Motorola and DEC lost
> > money and failed to drive adoption of their RISC chips in desktops.
> > Apple dropped PPC for Intel, eliminating the last RISC CPU in desktop
> > machines. Given this history, if you're an exec at ARM, would you
> > consider such a push viable? Let alone profitable? No, you wouldn't.
> >
>
> Well, maybe the've got more insight than you:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/30/amd_to_partner_with_arm_for_server_cpus/
Just saw that, too:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411546,00.asp
Although to be fair, Stan was talking about desktops, and this is about
servers.
Celejar
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