As we mentioned last week, Qualcomm's new Centriq 2400 Platform will run Microsoft server operating systems on ARM chips, however there are those who believe it is already too late for that to save Microsoft's hold on the data centre. A few years ago ARM started work on developing what they called Server Base System Architecture, essentially creating a standardized way in which any OS can communicate effectively with an ARM chip, the same sort of standardization which originally won the server room for x86 based chips. With ARM's DynamIQ Technology, which Josh discusses in depth, just around the corner their hardware is also becoming more attractive. Pop by The Register for more details on this possible industry sea change.
"Cutting to the heart of it, it doesn't actually matter if Microsoft releases Windows Server for ARM. Windows isn't the future and even Microsoft knows it. The upcoming availability of SQL server on Linux is all the proof we need that the game is over and, in the data centre at least, Microsoft didn't win."
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“Windows isn’t the future”?
“Windows isn’t the future”? Er… someone is smoking a bit too much cool-aid…
In general it doesn’t matter what runs in the datacenter… Could be linux, windows, bsd, something else.
Companies will run what they want to run.
Do not know if it will be
Do not know if it will be good for MS, Redhat or SUSE but more competition will be good for consumer.
Ha, ha! All that M$ bloat and
Ha, ha! All that M$ bloat and x86 to ARMv9A ISA translation layers to get that winblows x86 software to work. That will take up a lot of otherwise useful ARM core CPU cycles just to emulate the x86 ISA(x86 to ARMv8A ISA translation layers) to run the win32 applications.
And what of that windows 10 telemetry! Oh and all that windows 10 bloat, bloat, bloat!
With Redhat or SUSE the OS is still open source and free they only make their money from support services.
With M$ the OS licensing costs $$$$ –>[Per CPU core for $$$$]<-- and then there is the patented M$ support scam to milk for more dollars! Milk Milk Milk, Scam Scam Scam!
edit: ARMv9A ISA
to: ARMv8A
edit: ARMv9A ISA
to: ARMv8A ISA
But even if there where an ARMv9A ISA some time in the future it still would not be very efficient running all that windows bloat trhough levels and levels of translation layers needed to run x86 win32 applications on any x86 ISA to ARM ISA translation layers and layers and layers!
So far ARM has had trouble
So far ARM has had trouble going up against Intel’s perf/W. Now with AMD’s Naples, not only is perf/W of x86 getting way better, perf/$ is too. ARM is in trouble.
Its not the perf/W in itself
Its not the perf/W in itself that is a problem most ARM SOCs has much better values for that than anything from Intel.
The problem is the perf value where ARM just is not competitive. And when they do have ok performance the perf/W value is not so good anymore so the value of using ARM instead of Intel CPUs kind of evaporates.
Don’t forget that AMD has a
Don’t forget that AMD has a custom ARMv8A ISA running micro-arch developed by Jim Keller and his K12 team, designed in the same time frame as the Jim Keller/Keller’s Zen design team’s x86/Zen! So AMD currenty Has its server Opteron Seattle(Based on ARM holdings reference A57 cores) SKUs that will be updated to AMD’s Custom ARMv8A ISA running K12 cores in late 2017-2018(?).
AMD’s Custom K12 may even have SMT capabilities and be even wider order superscalar(more FP/INT/other execution units per core) than even Zen!
Do you have any proof of the
Do you have any proof of the claims these others are making in the article. Because Microsoft’s quarterly results for decades say everything has been going very well for them in the data center. You could say AWS is crushing Azure but azure is still very profitable and a lot of the servers running in AWS are licensed for windows.