[moftz]

Interesting to see ARM starting to become datacenter worthy now. It's cheap and there is a version geared towards any application you can think of. Now let's see HPE use some FPGAs with embedded ARM CPUs. That would really be the killer for all the smaller shops that are building similar exabyte systems.

[happycube]

A lot of it is the big customers can go to a chip company and say "I want this SOC, with X, Y, and Z" - and if they want enough of them, will actually be able to get them at a reasonable price.

I read this is why Qualcomm did their data center chip - some of the big Chinese companies wanted it.