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by aparashk 2040 days ago
What is the x64 on ARM opportunity in a bit more detail? What would drive a billion dollar valuation for such a business?

I would have thought that anything of lasting interest would be available in source code and thus ported to run natively on ARM...
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offtop5 2040 days ago
Because years , if not decades of legacy server code could be ran on Arm without re-writing anything.

An EC2 rival could run the same processes using 30% of the power. Plus as ARM tends to run on much smaller devices, you could theoretically save tons of physical space with data centers.

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aparashk 2040 days ago
Fascinating, so you are saying if a Rosetta2 like software can be made for Graviton or X1, that’d be an instant hit?
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offtop5 2039 days ago
Assuming you could also have the same reliability, I'd believe you could get the cost way down. Who wouldn't want to operate their service for half price
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