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Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

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Re: The cost of broken x86 is already significant and rising rapidly...

What's interesting about whether Intel/AMD can adapt is that they've already done it once with x86-64, but in doing so they made a lot more cruft. They might be able to offer a stripped back more efficient better validated DC focussed x86-64 variant, but it'll be tough for them to market it. Case in point Xeon Phi's long twisty genesis.

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