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Originally posted by madscientist159 View PostI can go purchase a competitive AMD card if I don't want to sign up for the NVIDIA™ Linux™ Distribution™ with 5 Trillion EULAs™ and no source. What exactly is my alternative for ARM chips, SAS controllers, networking devices, etc?
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postthere are certainly more arm vendors than x86 gpu vendors. and networking device vendors. have no idea about sas controllers, who needs them anywa
Seriously though: you can hardly compare x86 and ARM on number of vendors/manufacturers... The former was Intel's own private architecture which AMD also manufactured originally*, while the latter is based on licensing the CPU and GPU specifications and designs created by ARM, and letting someone else manufacture or even modify them.
Compőaring x86 to IBM's POWER architecture would be a much fairer comparison.
*: plus you have VIA. Do not forget VIA!
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OneBitUser what tends to happen in the ARM space is that sure, you can get lots of cheap, low power, IoT and phone style chips from the little manufacturers. Every time someone gets close to something that could be usable in e.g. a desktop or low end server application, the chip doesn't perform well and/or gets locked up somewhere. Developing high performance chips is very, very expensive, and so far only the relatively anti-FOSS companies have made any headway at all in that arena. This merger makes owner-controllable high-performance ARM even more unlikely in the near future.
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Originally posted by madscientist159 View PostDeveloping high performance chips is very, very expensive, and so far only the relatively anti-FOSS companies have made any headway at all in that arena.
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