On: The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System

[transfire]

I am surprised. I thought 64-bit ARM was the newness headed to the server farms.

[wyldfire → transfire]

ARM instruction set is pretty mature but the system architecture for servers is less so, IMO. I think there's little commonality for bootstrapping the various SoCs.

[DannyBee → transfire]

It will be there eventually. It is definitely not there now, despite what some may have you think :)

[StreamBright → DannyBee]

Do you have some data to back this prediction? What is the biggest advantage over x86 server processors?

[DannyBee → StreamBright]

Which, that it isn't there now? Or that it will be there eventually?

The x86 server processors have too much legacy they can't get rid of, and that limits how far they can push it.

[bogomipz → transfire]

Is there enough juice in ARM chips to power servers and compete with Intel offerings like Skylake/Haswell?