[KingMachiavelli]

I wonder if they will sell the Yitian 710 directly since I'm not sure how large on foreign use of their cloud (? Guess I was out of the loop on cloud providers in China). I would love to have a machine that could compile monstrosities like Chromium and Firefox in < 10 minutes.

Since all these high core count, cheap ARM processors are only available via cloud providers I might end up using spot instances to spin up very large build servers but it feels overkill for what are currently just personal projects (NixOS stuff).

[killingtime74]

I don’t think any cloud provider will be selling these custom chips, it’s not their business model. You can buy ARM servers already (Ampere Altra https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review)