Graviton 3: AWS attempts to gain silicon advantage with latest custom hardware

AWS had a conviction that "modern processors were not well optimized for modern workloads," the cloud corp's senior veep of Infrastructure, Peter DeSantis, claimed at its latest annual Re:invent gathering in Las Vegas. DeSantis was speaking last week about AWS's Graviton 3 Arm-based processor, providing a bit more meat around …

[Bitsminer]

a challenge for x86 chip vendors

AWS compare against their previous generation, as does almost everyone else. Unless it's a fake comparison (hello Intel).

But we need competitive benchmarks. Is anyone posting SPEC benchmark results? Or anything?

And, is posting benchmark results even permitted by their TOS?

[EnviableOne]

Re: a challenge for x86 chip vendors

The problem is no one outside $CloudVendor has access to their Chips.

that's at least until they start selling them as hardware, which wont happen, as they are growing quicker than they can get them made