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Sure. But back then there was no "cloud" either. AWS alone is ramping up on AMD offerings. There's an AMD counterpart for almost every instance type today (suffixed by "a"). I think the world is a lot more ready to leverage multi-core and multi-threaded chips today than ever before.

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I see the server market skipping over and and moving to arm. The Apple silicon makes it easier for Silicon Valley Devs to use an arm ecosystem. That way dev/test/staging/prod is the same ish binaries.

We moved some of our AWS things over to "a" instances as they were cheaper per unit of performance than the intel ones. They've been great

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