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by fulafel 1704 days ago
Yep, the inertia and economy of scale come from there and when the pendulum is in full swing, servers have seemed inevitable.

But timing is hard here too, and lots of things that seem inevitable take many attempts and a long to happen. ARM server chips have near history marked by struggle, there have been several over the last decade. Remember eg AMD in 2012? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/amd-a... Or this ARM Ltd announcement: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/Server-CPU-Xeon-Opteron-AR...