Comment by rbanffy
10 years ago
> There's not enough demand to make them competitive in price-performance
High-end chips only need to compete with other high-end chips. And low-end SPARC will not take off now that x86 has taken over.
10 years ago
> There's not enough demand to make them competitive in price-performance
High-end chips only need to compete with other high-end chips. And low-end SPARC will not take off now that x86 has taken over.
You make that sound easy. The POWER and SPARC T/M chips are amazing. Yet, Intel Xeon still dominates to point that they can charge less and invest more. That's with one hell of a head start from Sun and IBM. The other's... Alpha, MIPS, and PA-RISC... folded in server markets with Itanium soon to follow.
You can't just compete directly in that market: you have to convince them yours is worth buying for less performance at higher price and watts. Itanium tried with reliability & security advantages. Failed. Fortunately, Dover is about to try with RISC-V combined with SAFE architecture (crash-safe.org) for embedded stuff. We'll see what happens there.