Replies to post #138125 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[fastpathguru]

Was that late start expected? I've been hearing about the ARM threat to servers for three years now.

IMHO ARM couldn't be a credible force in the server market without 64-bit address support. Anything done to promote 32-bit chips as server processors is/was mostly wasted effort to the extent that the results of that effort couldn't be applied to 64-bit chips. The A64 ISA was announced 3 years ago.

How long did it take Intel to go from AMD's announcement of x86-64 to Intel fielding their first x86-64-compatible server chips? And then how long did it take for them to actually dominate the server market with the offspring of those chips?

I keep hearing here that it took more than a decade overall, when being used as an example of why Intel is destined to dominate mobile despite it's early setbacks.

fpg

[Dmcq]

Was that late start expected? I've been hearing about the ARM threat to servers for three years now.

Apple was the big outlier making 64 bit ARM chips for use in an end product in 2013. It came out before development platforms became generally available! I believe the big plan since it was announced three years ago was for the first embedded and mobile use to come out this year, user testing of servers next year, and production servers in 2016.

Getting the software right is a big job, and I can see a chicken and egg problem looming in who can be bothered to produce a machine with the best process until there might be production volumes - but users would then not have such machines to test in advance. I don't think any of them has the money to produce leading technology products just to look at.