Binary compatibility is the Moat that Intel and AMD have.
Try using ARM based server and you quickly realize the pain.
Besides, other Hyperscalers won't use Amazon's Chips. So no economy of scale.
Do you remember Amazon Phone ?
Try using ARM based server and you quickly realize the pain.
Besides, other Hyperscalers won't use Amazon's Chips. So no economy of scale.
Do you remember Amazon Phone ?
Compatibility issues?
Performance issues?
Something else?
Many open source projects don’t even have build tooling or testing on anything but x64.
That’s a lot of pain, even discounting buggy and poorly tested drivers.
As for which libraries, I’m too lazy to do a detailed search. All I can report anecdotally is that we very briefly tried ARM at dayjob on our codebase about a year ago and it seemed everything was immediately broken. Especially interop between high level languages and C libraries. The team tasked with it said almost imm fiat would “way too hard, let’s quit this experiment”.