Ampere switching to in-house CPU designs
I realize it&#x27;s probably targeted at hyperscale &quot;cloud&quot; stuff, but when their previous CPU was announced, I took a good long and hard look at what it would take to actually buy and use it. Unlike being able to buy a $650 Supermicro, MSI or Tyan dual socket motherboard and put your choice of a couple of Intel or AMD CPUs on it, it turned out that it was unavailable for mere mortals to purchase at any reasonable price.<p>My message for people trying to make &quot;ARM Server&quot; CPUs a thing is that you have a real chicken or egg problem to solve, getting these things into the hands of people doing Linux development on x86-64 right now. Without a robust ecosystem of all the Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturers behind you, it&#x27;s never going to get more than a few percent market share.