On: Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops

[Lex-2008]

> all of them will be mutually incompatible, with own programming languages and data formats. The future looks bleak.

Server hardware had (still has somewhere): SPARC from Sun, PowerPC from IBM, HPPA from HP, etc... See for example list of supported architectures for Debian4: https://www.debian.org/releases/etch/hppa/ch02s01.html.en

But it feels like amd64 is winning today. Don't you think that eventually one of these architectures you're talking about (Google's, Apple's, Samsung's, CCP's) will win over others, one way or another?

[mattnewton → Lex-2008]

Only if they have an incentive to sell it as a commodity.

x86_64 didn’t win on technical superiority alone.

[shepherdjerred → Lex-2008]

amd64 is going to lose to arm64. arm64 is significantly cheaper in a server context.

[NavinF → shepherdjerred]

Is it though? I can't find any new ARM server CPUs for sale anywhere. I can assure you that "request a quote" pricing is anything but cheap.

[hansel_der → Lex-2008]

i'd guess there are about an order of magnitude more arm devices on the planet than intel/amd64.

it's called "ARMada" for a reason