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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/20181517

That’s a lot of layoffs.

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[-] crime@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They've been losing marketshare to ARM for years. For cloud infrastructure servers (where the big bucks are) I know Amazon has been making a huge push towards ARM-based processors since the late 2010s — they offer them cheaper than servers with equivalent Intel chips, and in some cases they have better performance too, which is a major incentive for companies to switch. (Every company I've worked at has had a project to switch to the ARM-based servers.) Google just announced their own ARM-based processors for their cloud platform this year, and Microsoft has been offering them for a couple years too.

Part of it is that it's easier for these companies to customize (and manufacture?) their own ARM-based chipsets, which means they can offer them for a lower price vs Intel

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