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A blog post is coming, so I might have jumped the shark here. An interesting note from a Cloudflare engineer: Most powerful Xeon is the 28 core Platinum 2180 at $10k RSP and >200W TDP. Due to the nature of Intel turbo boost it almost always operates at TDP under load. Our ARM is the Centriq 2452 at less than $1400 RSP, 46 cores and 120W TDP, that it never hits. Beats Xeon 9/10 workloads. twitter.com/thecomp1ler/status/97661788…
Cloudflare CEO: Why we’re switching to ARM-based serversRead the thread - Cites it
And energy efficiency with all things equal: twitter.com/eastdakota/status/976560820…
Cloudflare Bets on ARM Servers as It Expands Its Data Center NetworkRead the thread - Cites it
Is it about power? twitter.com/eastdakota/status/976560820… Presumably ~1/3 less power means AWS gets a better margin on these.
Amazon's homegrown Graviton processor was very nearly an AMD Arm CPURead the thread