On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:56:25 +0100 Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> On 30/10/12 05:02, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... > > It's simple economics: If one could make a decent amount of profit > > pushing an ARM based desktop CPU into the market, they'd do it. They > > haven't done it, nor will do it, because there's no money to be made, > > only losses, as history has shown us. Both IBM/Motorola and DEC lost > > money and failed to drive adoption of their RISC chips in desktops. > > Apple dropped PPC for Intel, eliminating the last RISC CPU in desktop > > machines. Given this history, if you're an exec at ARM, would you > > consider such a push viable? Let alone profitable? No, you wouldn't. > > > > Well, maybe the've got more insight than you: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/30/amd_to_partner_with_arm_for_server_cpus/ Just saw that, too: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411546,00.asp Although to be fair, Stan was talking about desktops, and this is about servers. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121030125851.7386fccb.cele...@gmail.com
