It seems like they have a few firewalls to burn through before a dramatic xeon price cut. They could just start churning out xeon-d parts that are already fairly affordable and designed to basically compete with most of these server arm parts.
It's hard to overstate how good Intel is at what they do. It sucks that they haven't been radically increasing performance like they used to, but they had been doing it for 40 years. It also sucks that they do seem to slow play things a little and enjoy the margins. Do they still own an ARM license? Could they make their own ARM parts again if they wanted?
It's hard to overstate how good Intel is at what they do. It sucks that they haven't been radically increasing performance like they used to, but they had been doing it for 40 years. It also sucks that they do seem to slow play things a little and enjoy the margins. Do they still own an ARM license? Could they make their own ARM parts again if they wanted?