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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system

(marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
204 points pabs3 | 5 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:38 UTC | HN request time: 1.607s | source
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maz1b ◴[30 Jun 25 06:28 UTC] No.44420099[source]▶
I've always wondered why there isn't a bigger market / offering for dedicated servers with Ampere at their heart (apart from Hetzner)

If anyone knows of any, let me know!

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ozgrakkurt ◴[30 Jun 25 06:31 UTC] No.44420113[source]▶
A lot of software is built and optimized for x86 and EPYC processors are really good so it is hard to get into arm, don’t think that many companies use it.
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1. Someone ◴[30 Jun 25 06:58 UTC] No.44420304[source]▶
If you use AWS, lots of software can easily be run on Graviton, and lots of companies do that.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/08/amazon_arm_servers/:

“Bernstein's report estimates that Graviton represented about 20 percent of AWS CPU instances by mid-2022“

And that’s three years ago. Graviton instances are cheaper than (more or less) equivalent x86 ones on AWS, so I think it’s a safe bet that number has gone up since.

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2. baq ◴[30 Jun 25 07:51 UTC] No.44420583[source]▶
yeah if you're running a node backend, the changes are cosmetic at best (unless you're running chrome to generate pdfs or whatever). easiest 20% saved ever. if I were Intel or AMD I would be very afraid of this... years ago.
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3. imtringued ◴[30 Jun 25 10:46 UTC] No.44421650[source]▶
I was scared of ARM taking over in 2017 (e.g. Windows being locked down to just the Microsoft store) and 8 years later literally nothing happened.
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4. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[30 Jun 25 14:40 UTC] No.44423938{3}[source]▶
I would not call Windows RT "literally nothing". It failed, but it clearly was an attempt to lock things down.
5. p_ing ◴[30 Jun 25 16:58 UTC] No.44425505{3}[source]▶
Windows S exists today.