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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system

(marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl)
204 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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adev_ ◴[30 Jun 25 06:49 UTC] No.44420236[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.

That is just not true.

Nowadays, most OSS software and most server side software will run without any hinch on armv8.

A tremendous amount of work has been done to speed up common software on armv8, partially due to popularity of mobile as a platform but also and to the emergence of ARM servers (Graviton / Neoverses) in the major Cloud providers infrastructure.

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1. arp242 ◴[30 Jun 25 17:18 UTC] No.44425743[source]▶
Most of the times I've looked at it, ARM still seems to be lagging behind x86 a bit, but the gap is much smaller than it used to be. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925983

Of course the specifics will depend on what you're doing: for certain applications or code-paths ARM may well have 100% parity, or perhaps even have more optimisations than x86.