Re: Since when is AI coverage based on distance?
Since it started sucking in everyone's power from the surroundings like some Star Trek 4 V'Ger for Whales.
What did they call that thing anyway?
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Early articles from the likes of the Next Platform had EPI funded SiPearl producing the HPC oriented Arm Neoverse V core Rhea chip by 2022, to be followed by Chronos. It's been put back to release this year... maybe. All very well having lots of projects but somebody somewhere needs to tape out and ship something. Happy to be enlightened as I don't follow this area terribly closely.
It's a bit reflective of a lot of the UK cloud / hosting industry. Most providers* here seem to think that lobbing a few VMWare instances and backup services to customers constitutes the cloud. Trying not to be down on my own country, but I spend way more time talking to and visiting providers and CSPs on the European mainland who tend to be doing things more customers want.
* thankfully, there are a few UK based companies that seem to be doing something interesting. Good luck to them.
"Servers typically have a lifecycle of three to five years, and technology improvements generally reduce the overall heat they produce."
I suppose that's a correct statement per sum, but the number of sums being done is going up way faster than the energy required to do them is going down. Similar can be said for the power required to transport around the answers to those sums.
SBCs yes, although Armbian and other efforts are trying to help with standardisation.
When it comes to Aarch64 servers things are different. SBSA Server Base System Architecture and a bunch of associated efforts mean that you can boot into a regular UEFI/BIOS like AMI Aptio V, Tianocore EDK2, use management like OpenBMC, iLO, MegaRac and address it using ipmi etc.