Reply to post: uhm... relativity !!

China may prove Arm wrong about RISC-V's role in the datacenter

boatsman

uhm... relativity !!

I read your quoted article a bit..

https://www.servethehome.com/arm-based-alibaba-cloud-t-head-yitian-710-crushes-specrate2017_int_base/

"...... an ASUS AMD EPYC 7773X (“Milan-X”) CPU with 64 cores has published results of 440 or 6.875/ core, but with half as many cores and older generation DDR4 (albeit with a larger L3 cache.) ....."

301 vs 440 *but* half the cores / half the energy or worse.

actually 150.5 vs 440

chip architecture is a piece of paper, that might be briliant.

actually building a chip that implements the architecture, is a veeeery difficult job, and china / india / etc

do not have the brains walking around to do that

*with*

the necessary ecosystem / tools AND experience.

there is no 5 day course for "experience"

There is enough smart people in these countries, without a doubt. but experience / tools / etc is not for sale.

And last but not least: ASML does not sell the Ultra violet machinery to China. fullstop.

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