Comment by kbolino
1 year ago
Those are both mid-range CPUs in standard consumer configurations, and I agree ARM does very well in that segment, and it does even better in the low-power/mobile/embedded segment where x86 is practically non-existent (recent gaming handhelds notwithstanding).
However, high-end workstations, compute-focused servers, and supercomputers, which use extremely expensive and power-hungry x86 chips, are a different segment, one to which ARM currently has no direct answer (and some might argue it shouldn't have one because such wasteful things shouldn't exist). This segment once had a number of competitive RISC players, like POWER and SPARC, so I don't think it's unobtainable for ARM.
What are you talking about there are arm supercomputers.
There's at least 2 in the top 10, and the fugaku was the fastest in the world for a couple of years between 2020 and 2022.
You're absolutely right, I missed that entirely. The vast majority of the TOP500 is still x86 but it's already losing ground to ARM. There's still some POWER systems on the list too.